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Hello all,
I am in the process of having a slight disagreement with my uncle regarding the provisions of the Geneva Convention.
He stated that it is illegal for a soldier to shoot another soldier with anything larger than a 7.62mm unless he has nothing smaller, as in shooting at troops with an Apache's 30mm chaingun or strafing with an aircraft's 20mm. It is okay to shoot at a vehicle with people inside, though.
Once upon a time I looked up the Geneva Convention and all I could find regarding the issue was
*Under the Geneva Convention the language states that it is forbidden " To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering" but it doesn't give exact parameters.
*Under the Hague Accords "The Contracting Parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions."
*In the Declaration of St. Petersburg it says "The Contracting Parties engage mutually to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the employment by their military or naval troops of any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances."
What information am I missing? Please, include actual text and/or links to the actual documents.
Thanks in advance,
Apple
I am in the process of having a slight disagreement with my uncle regarding the provisions of the Geneva Convention.
He stated that it is illegal for a soldier to shoot another soldier with anything larger than a 7.62mm unless he has nothing smaller, as in shooting at troops with an Apache's 30mm chaingun or strafing with an aircraft's 20mm. It is okay to shoot at a vehicle with people inside, though.
Once upon a time I looked up the Geneva Convention and all I could find regarding the issue was
*Under the Geneva Convention the language states that it is forbidden " To employ arms, projectiles, or material calculated to cause unnecessary suffering" but it doesn't give exact parameters.
*Under the Hague Accords "The Contracting Parties agree to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the core or is pierced with incisions."
*In the Declaration of St. Petersburg it says "The Contracting Parties engage mutually to renounce, in case of war among themselves, the employment by their military or naval troops of any projectile of a weight below 400 grammes, which is either explosive or charged with fulminating or inflammable substances."
What information am I missing? Please, include actual text and/or links to the actual documents.
Thanks in advance,
Apple