2006-07-12 15:14:34 · 9 answers · asked by radiant_star888 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
It depends on how you killed them. There's the Geneva conventions that delegate what are war crimes and what are not.
2006-07-12 15:18:46 · answer #1 · answered by steveed 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are laws in war (see the Geneva Convention for examples), however killing another combatant in military combat is not legally murder. No. That being said, killing should at all costs be avoided, anytime. If prisioners can be taken in the situation, they should not be killed.
2006-07-12 15:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by David 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way that you could commit a crime in war by killing someone is if you were ordered not to fire at them or whatever, if you have the order to kill them its perfectly legal
2006-07-12 15:19:09 · answer #3 · answered by Neo 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends. If they are an enemy combatant or someone who tried to kill you (say a civilian shoting at you) then no. But if joe farmer is chasing a chicken and you shoot him then yes.
Geneva Convention sets up all the rules.
2006-07-12 15:18:23 · answer #4 · answered by Lupin IV 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
By the Geneva Convention governing a few details, torture is basically taboo. However, it's still prevalent...
War itself is still a crime; it's a crime it exists.
2006-07-12 15:18:55 · answer #5 · answered by coorissee 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at the starting up, that is no longer seen a sin for Christians to commit suicide, simply by the indisputable fact that is seen a psychological ailment. decrease back even as it became, the idea procedure became that committing suicide became eliminating your existence without justicification, even as killing in conflict helps/preserving your us of a.
2016-11-06 07:17:47 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you kill them as an act of war, they are a casualty. But if you blow innconent people's brains out for no apparent reason, then its murder.
2006-07-12 15:18:45 · answer #7 · answered by ladylaw_912 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes and the U.S. is fighting a politically correct war (which will get us no were) its like tying our soldiers arms behind their backs and expecting them to fight
2006-07-12 15:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by lyra 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they're not combatants (and prisoners are no longer combatants) and it wasn't an accident, yes.
2006-07-12 15:18:20 · answer #9 · answered by wmp55 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋