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UN experts cite US school strike killing around 150
The Hindu BusinessLine··18 Sept
UN-backed experts reported reasonable grounds to believe US forces committed war crimes in the Iran conflict. Their report cited a Tomahawk strike on a Minab primary school that killed more than 150 people. A separate Lamerd strike killed 22 people, the mission said. The White House rejected the findings. The Pentagon said Minab was under investigation in March.
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What It Means For You
- The 18-page report is not binding but can feed later accountability efforts in international courts.
- Civilian casualty findings add pressure on how future strikes near schools are reviewed.
- White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said the Council has accomplished nothing for human rights.
What's Happening
- The independent fact-finding mission examined the Minab school strike and a tungsten-pellet strike over Lamerd.
- It also blamed Iranian authorities for gross human rights violations and crimes against humanity in protest crackdowns.
- Bloomberg earlier reported investigators were examining intelligence systems that missed a former military site now used as a school.
What the Mission Flagged
- The Minab strike was described as the worst civilian harm from US operations in decades.
- The mission told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva it found reasonable grounds for an indiscriminate-attack war crime.
- A separate Lamerd strike killed 22 people, according to the report summary.
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