War crime: NATO deliberately destroyed Libya's water infrastructure

http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2869234/war_crime_nato_deliberately_destroyed_libyas_water_infrastructure.html
Date Written:  2015-05-14
Publisher:  The Ecologist
Year Published:  2015
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX17639

The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya. Since then, the country's water infrastructure has only deteriorated further.

Subject Headings

• Bombing
• Libya
• NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
• War Crimes