If You Witnessed War Crimes, What Would You Do?

[Playinghardball]

Would you speak out?

Found on I Am Bradley Manning’s YouTube channel/MoveOn.org

[L0oniX]

1. Don't need to report it. The NSA and DHS will catch all that stuff now ....erm uh oh hmmm

[Scuba]

2. After being horrified, I'd likely ball up in a fetal position, because I'm a coward ...

... not a hero like this guy.

This man is a hero, a giant among men, far braver than I.

[annm4peace]

6. wow, he looks so tiny

the picture almost looks photoshopped.
I know he was small but that picture really makes him look so vulnerable.

[idwiyo]

3. Post the evidence on Internet. Make it public. Exactly what Bradley Manning did.

[tclambert]

4. "Let's look forward, not backward."

I'd have ordered Bush and Cheney led away in handcuffs on Inauguration Day, 2009. I'm still disappointed it didn't happen.

[rug]

5. Anyone who's followed these wars has witnessed war crimes.

[4bucksagallon]

7. How about if you were ordered to participate in as well as witness should you incriminate yourself??

I am troubled by this more as years go by but still I want to know...... there has to be an answer.

[idwiyo]

8. The answer is yes, you must report, it's your duty to do so.

If you were ordered to commit war crime but the order was not manifestly unlawful, you wouldn't be held responcinble for obeying that order. You are stil obligated to report the crime once you discovered that the order was unlawful.

If I remember correctly, you will not be held responcinble if you were forced to commit a crime, but the obligation to report it as soon as possible is still there.

You can check the link below for some of the rules:

http://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1

Rule 151. Individual Responsibility
Rule 151. Individuals are criminally responsible for war crimes they commit.


Rule 154. Obedience to Superior Orders
Rule 154. Every combatant has a duty to disobey a manifestly unlawful order.


Rule 155. Defence of Superior Orders
Rule 155. Obeying a superior order does not relieve a subordinate of criminal responsibility if the subordinate knew that the act ordered was unlawful or should have known because of the manifestly unlawful nature of the act ordered.

[Iggo]

9. Document, document, document.