polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 3^rd, 2022 at 1:15pm:


Is punishing people who commit war crimes a useful way to reduce war crimes?

Meanwhile in New Zealand



An Auckland man told a person on social media he wanted to kill “non-Muslims” and began planning a terror attack in New Zealand, Stuff can now report.

The 20-year-old appeared at the High Court at Auckland on Wednesday, where he admitted threatening to kill, two charges of distributing objectionable publications and six counts of possessing objectionable material.

The man was charged last September and initially appeared in the North Shore District Court, days after the LynnMall terror attack.

Stuff can now report the man, who was then 19, came to the attention of police as he chatted about Isis and shared videos depicting extreme violence.

He told a person on social media that if he couldn’t travel to Syria and support Isis, his plan B was to carry out an attack in Auckland, according to the summary of facts.

The man discussed at length various options for the attack, including a knife attack, vehicle attack or and explosive attack.

He said the bombing attack in Manchester 2017 was fully justified.

He believed terror attacks on non-Muslims were justified and began to prepare an attack, where he hoped to kill between 20 and 30 people.

The man also researched about 80 locations around Auckland which included religious institutions, shopping malls, cafés, restaurants and the airport.

He started putting together a kit which included knives and camouflage.

After the New Lynn terror attack on September 3, the defendant messaged the person on social media saying he felt inspired and wanted to bring the attack forward.

He took screenshots of Al-Qaeda propaganda literature, searched for instructions on how to make a bomb and how and what to use to stab people.

When police executed a search warrant in September 2021, they found his Google cloud account had hundreds of videos, including body-cam footage of a terror attack in Germany, the Christchurch mosque attacker’s manifesto and other Isis videos.

In another video the defendant spoke of his allegiance to the Islamic State and claimed retribution against the New Zealand Government.

“The defendant states that he is ready for Martrydom and will commit a terror attack after he has done more research.”…
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/300735437/man-planned-to-carry-out-terror-attack-in-auckland-inspired-by-previous-mall-attack

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime/teen-who-threatened-to-kill-non-muslims-had-plan-to-attack-auckland-documents-show/CXYRBH24TNB3RD7HOVLWFZLWGU/

freediver wrote on Nov 12^th, 2022 at 3:59pm:


Evidently not.

polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 15^th, 2022 at 3:02pm:


Are you saying you have evidence? Because it sounds like you are making it up. You prefer to lie than admit that America might have actually done something useful.

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Is this your new tapdance routine for avoiding giving a straight answer to a simple question Gandalf?

Why do you see no evidence? Is it because your eyes are closed?

polite_gandalf wrote on Nov 24^th, 2022 at 8:01am:


Do you think that soldiers raping women is as common as it was centuries ago?

I see your fairytale version of history is not confined to Muhammad's rape and pillage.

Gandalf, would you at least agree that attitudes towards rape in war have changed for the better?

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Can you explain this magical thinking Gandalf? Are you suggesting that in the past, great armies magically appeared on a battlefield, slaughtered each other, then magically disappeared, without interacting with civilians?

https://reliefweb.int/attachments/b4eed8aa-3184-35e6-9635-c2ffdf454daf/2012Human
SecurityReport-FullText.pdf

Moreover, the evidence suggests that the level of sexual violence worldwide is likely declining, not increasing as claimed by senior UN officials.

There is no doubt that the reporting of conflict-related sexual violence in war zones has increased dramatically over the past two decades as the political salience of the issue has increased. But there is no compelling evidence to support assertions made by senior UN officials and in high-level UN and other official reports, that wartime sexual violence has been increasing.

Moreover, although there are no reliable cross-national trend data on sexual violence in wartime, indirect evidence suggests that its incidence has declined worldwide over the past two decades.