Rules Needed to Curtail Collateral Damage
Charli Carpenter, University of Massachusetts | August 12, 2010
Existing international law does not adequately protect civilians during wartime. ++ Governments are not held accountable for collateral damage – clearly, an ethical tragedy. ++ Coalition forces are responsible for 35 percent of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. ++ New rules need to be adopted in order to fit the nature of today’s wars. ++ "As the Afghan war logs suggest, collateral damage by governments may be increasing in international wars in part because of the absence of such clear-cut rules. It’s time for this to change."
