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2024-09-20 02:52:35 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 9592CE489AAFE905BF19C51A5BA2B7D2BE2A3781DB505F362A137CED73E5B001
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This is false. Combatants - and, by extension, legitimate targets - are defined within the Geneva Conventions as ‘all organised armed forces, groups and units which are under a command responsible to that Party for the conduct of its subordinates’. https://everycasualty.org/knowledge-base/legitimate-targets-in-an-international-armed-conflict/ https://hhi.harvard.edu/publications/legitimate-targets-attacks-under-international-humanitarian-law
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