It should be written into the Geneva Convention that any country that wages war on another country should be held accountable for maimed and killed civilians. This accountability would include top quality medical care and financial compensation.

The coalition forces could say that the Iraqi military are using civilians as human shields and are placing weaponry in residential areas as an excuse to avoid compensation. It’s called passing the buck, but when the coalition forces attack first and without support from the UN then any excuse for civilian causalities, whether true or false, will always go against them, and because of this, all civilian causalities (dead & maimed) during the war are the responsibility of the acting force. They have no argument to support their claim of innocence if they started the onslaught, and so must take responsibility for their actions.

I have suddenly realised that there are flaws with my thinking on this matter. If the opposing forces knew that compensation… Continue reading