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Bernardo de La Paz

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39. If military are informed that cultural sites are war crimes, THEY see the list. THEY will have to de

Mon Jan 6, 2020, 09:35 AM

Jan 2020

They will have to decide. But they must know the parameters and keeping it in the news helps educate them.

tRump's list is imaginary. Pentagon has said there are fewer than 52 on the real list.

We don't have to know the list, though it would help. And military targets on the list would be secret. But the military must know or become informed of their legal liabilities.

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