• Bombing Hospitals Is a War Crime, Even When Your Friends Do It | The Tyee
    http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/03/19/Bombing-Hospitals-Is-War-Crime

    Just the other day, Trudeau said, “Regardless of how we may feel about a previous government, the fact is they were democratically elected. They signed on to a contract and we are bound to respect that contract.”

    But any prime minister who respects a contract with a government that commits war crimes might as well turn himself in to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for complicity in those crimes.

    Ten years ago, the brand new Conservative government of Stephen Harper faced (and failed) a similar challenge when Israel went to war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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