Comment by dlubarov
Wars often result in innocent farmers having mines in their fields (at least temporarily). How is this worse?
Wars often result in innocent farmers having mines in their fields (at least temporarily). How is this worse?
Do you consider it worse than conventional alternatives, such as artillery strikes, even if the latter is likely to result in a worse civilian casualty ratio?
Also, if booby traps aren't considered a legitimate tactic in a military conflict, why does noone complain when, say, Ukraine mines a field?
Booby traps and land mines are legally distinct (and, within land mines, anti-personnel and anti-vehicle land mines are distinct), but its also not the case that no one complains about the use of mines, booby-traps, etc., by both parties in the Russia-Ukraine War.
Farmers having to worry about mines in their fields is also something that I would consider to be a bad thing.