• JohnEdwa
        2•6 hours ago

        Thought sabotaging enemy equipment to explode isn’t.
        Had this been a bunch of Russian or Wagner Group radio equipment exploding because they had been rigged by Ukraine, it wouldn’t be a war crime - combatants don’t stop being valid targets even if they are on leave and are at fault of endangering the civil population, possibly themselves causing a war crime by effectively using civilians as human shields in the process.

        • queermunist she/her
          12•4 hours ago

          Pagers are civilian objects, they’re categorically different from radio equipment because they can be used by civilians.

          Furthermore, these exploded in civilian structures among the civilian population. Pagers blew up inside people’s cars while driving down the highway. They blew up on grocery stores. They blew up children.

          It’s terrorism.

        • @PolydoreSmith
          15•6 hours ago

          A pager isn’t “enemy equipment” in the same way a missile or a gun is. There were literally cell phone stores exploding in Lebanon. A 9-year-old girl died. This is 100% a fucking war crime. If someone kills a member of your family do you get to booby-trap the stove in their house so the kids get their faces melted off?

    • TimeSquirrel
      7•8 hours ago

      I would think involving civilians usually is. Not like it’s a first for them.

  • @linearchaosEnglish
    7•8 hours ago

    When I first read this, I was kind of hoping it was in shower thoughts.

  • Chozo
    4•8 hours ago

    This article spent more time explaining the logistics on building pager-bombs than it did actually explaining why building pager-bombs is a bad idea.

    • @residentmarchantEnglish
      10•8 hours ago

      Not sure if sarcasm, but the article is actually super insightful into a few different methods bad actors could use to accomplish the same feat (short of giving them a formula, from what I can read, but I’m not a battery maker)