Top 10 Warfare Practices Banned by the Geneva Convention
The Geneva Conventions are not a single document but a stack of treaties built on top of older laws of war, with the protocols updated repeatedly through the twentieth century. This ranking sorts the practices that were either banned outright or restricted hard enough to count, weighted by how often the prohibitions are still violated and how clearly the international system has tried to enforce them. Chemical Weapons sit high because the use of chlorine, mustard, and nerve agents has been the single most consistent line drawn in modern conflict, with violations producing some of the strongest international responses on record. Scorched Earth Policy is restricted under multiple protocols for civilian-protection reasons, with destruction of objects indispensable to civilian survival explicitly prohibited. Rape was historically treated as an unfortunate side effect of war and is now classified as a war crime and, in specific circumstances, a crime against humanity, with prosecutions at the ICTY and ICTR setting modern precedent. Human Shields are explicitly banned under both the conventions and customary international law, though enforcement remains patchy. Child Soldiers are prohibited under the Optional Protocol on the involvement of children in armed conflict, and the recruitment or use of under-fifteens can be prosecuted as a war crime. The list rewards prohibitions that have actual case-law backing them. Vote based on which violations you think still get the least media attention.
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Chemical Weapons
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Scorched Earth Policy
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Rape
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Human Shields
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Child Soldiers
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Killing of Medical Personnel
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Killing of Prisoners of War
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Physical and Mental Torture
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Aerial Bombings on Civilian Areas
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Summary Executions
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Landmines
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Cluster Munition Bombing
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Expanding Munitions
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Radioactive Weapons
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Weather Altering Weapons
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Napalm/Fire Munitions and Firebombs
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Earthquake Inducing Weapons
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Tripwire Explosives
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