Article two, protocol III of the 1980 UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons states: “It is prohibited in all circumstances to make the civilian population as such, individual civilians or civilian objects, the object of attack by incendiary weapons”. However, there is no blanket ban under international law on its use as a smokescreen or for [...]
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Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
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