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Originally Posted by SUBMAN1
Someone explain firebombing Dresden, or nuking Hiroshima then? I am puzzled.
I am guessing this is meant to protect civi's who are not citizens of a given country taking part in the fighting.
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If I remember correctly, the involved countries are still bickering and bitching about that.
Furthermore, the version of the Geneva Convention in question is from 1977. (Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977.)