Historical Evidence of Social Harms
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- Created on: 12-10-18 21:43
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- Historical evidence of Social Harms
- Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
- 140,000 deaths from an atomic bomb
- No law restricting the use of atomic bombs
- Bombing innocent civilians is now illegal
- The USA are the only country to have ever used nuclear weapons against another.
- US Airstrikes on Libya (1986)
- Bomb exploded in Germany killing 2 American Service Men
- Intelligence gained by the US Government suggested that the bomb was a scheme by the Libyan Government
- 60 American Jets dropped missiles on Libyan Naval Academy killing 41 people
- The US bombing was a violation to the UN Charter and international law
- Invasion of Iraq
- Evidence of weapons of mass destruction
- No weapons of mass destruction was ever found
- Backed by Britain, Poland and Austria
- During the first two years of coalition the forces killed 9270 civilians
- Evidence of weapons of mass destruction
- Genocide in Rwanda (1994)
- Plane carrying President of Rwanda was shot down
- Forces and 50,000 civilians killed 800,000 ethnic minorities in a 3 month killing spree
- UN Denied any genocide took place
- US Freedom of information speech later showed President Bill Clinton's administration knew Rwanda was engulfed in genocide by chose to ignore it
- UN Denied any genocide took place
- Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945)
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