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However horrific the civilian plane's shooting down is, i don't think accidental shoot down would qualify as a war crime. If anything, the celebratory message about supposed successful shooting down of one more military cargo plane confirms that the rebels, it it were rebels' missile, were intending to shoot at an enemy military target .

Wrt. the right [more precisely lack of it] to be forgotten and war crimes : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_on_the_Non-Applicabi...




"wantonly destroying cities, towns, villages, or any object not warranted by military necessity" is a war crime.

A plane would be such an object.

"murdering, mistreating, or deporting civilian residents of an occupied territory to slave labor camps" is a war crime.

Passengers of an aircraft traversing an occupied territory could be construed as civilian residents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crime

"Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war..." is a crime against humanity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimes_against_humanity




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