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Re: Should German WWII vets be arrested?
This isn't correct. "Murder" is an unlawful killing with malice. Not saying that the actions in question are not crimes, and more specifically 'war crimes'. But that doesn't automatically make them murder. What happens in a combat zone requires a different standard.
As an example: a small unit of soldiers is on a covert operation behind enemy lines, and in the process a enemy combatant surrenders to this unit before they have completed their mission. They can't let the prisoner go and risk him compromising the mission, so they may have to kill that prisoner. Where there are no other options would that be murder in your mind?
The matter of guards killing prisoners well within controlled territory would be a whole other story.
As has been pointed out before, coercion and necessity are not defenses to murder.
This isn't correct. "Murder" is an unlawful killing with malice. Not saying that the actions in question are not crimes, and more specifically 'war crimes'. But that doesn't automatically make them murder. What happens in a combat zone requires a different standard.
As an example: a small unit of soldiers is on a covert operation behind enemy lines, and in the process a enemy combatant surrenders to this unit before they have completed their mission. They can't let the prisoner go and risk him compromising the mission, so they may have to kill that prisoner. Where there are no other options would that be murder in your mind?
The matter of guards killing prisoners well within controlled territory would be a whole other story.