Military Law
Nov. 13, 2001
Illegal Defense
In a patently illegal use of armed force, United States and British bombs are falling on the people of Afghanistan. There already are reports of thousands of dead and wounded civilians from the same kind of American "smart bombs" used in Vietnam and Yugoslavia, with the promise of myriad casualties from unexploded cluster bombs. Yet while the media bombards us with details about the tragic but few deaths from Anthrax, we are shielded from photographs of the dead and injured in Afghanistan.
By Marjorie Cohn
In a patently illegal use of armed force, United States and British bombs are falling on the people of Afghanistan. There already are reports of thousands of dead and wounded civilians from the same kind of American "smart bombs" used in Vietnam and Yugoslavia, with the promise of myriad casualtie...
In a patently illegal use of armed force, United States and British bombs are falling on the people of Afghanistan. There already are reports of thousands of dead and wounded civilians from the same kind of American "smart bombs" used in Vietnam and Yugoslavia, with the promise of myriad casualtie...
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