I think it's something to do with affecting infrastructure.
If you waltz into a little village, kill, pillage and rape, yeah, that's a war crime.
But bobming a city is designed to damage infrastructure that supports a war effort. For example, Portsmouth UK, houses a decent chunk of our Royal Navy, meaning the city is a reasonable target for damaging wartime infrastructure. London is where you'll find the governing body, and services like MI5.
If you blow up a town in Hampshire, that's less defendable and I assume could be considered a war crime.
It's a war crime in that context. That's the key word, context.
It's like saying that it's a war crime to shoot someone. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Entirely dependent on context.
If you waltz into a little village, kill, pillage and rape, yeah, that's a war crime.
But bobming a city is designed to damage infrastructure that supports a war effort. For example, Portsmouth UK, houses a decent chunk of our Royal Navy, meaning the city is a reasonable target for damaging wartime infrastructure. London is where you'll find the governing body, and services like MI5.
If you blow up a town in Hampshire, that's less defendable and I assume could be considered a war crime.
It's like saying that it's a war crime to shoot someone. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Entirely dependent on context.