Civilians equals the vulnerable.

Civilians, in traditional law of war, are peaceful residents located in the territory of a belligerent and not among the belligerents. Civilians in a broad sense should generally refer to all peaceful inhabitants of war, with the exception of belligerents from all parties to the conflict. Civilians make up the vast majority of the world's population, but their numerical superiority does not provide them with a minimum of security, and they can only be called "weak" in the face of heavily armed armies.

Civilians often live in groups, accompanied by young and old, slow to move, have no ability to defend themselves, have low survival skills, are easy to be attacked and harmed, and are easily coerced and harmed by armed elements, all of which make them often direct victims of conflicts.

In the complex environment of warfare, factors such as weather, terrain, strategic objectives, tactical coordination, weapon performance, and soldier emotions can all lead to undeserved killings, and the largest group of victims are mainly innocent civilians.

Half of the victims of World War II were civilians. In particular, in the 49 major conflicts that have occurred in the world since the nineties and the new century, 4 million people have died, 90 per cent of them civilians, and 80 per cent of them women and children.

The frightened children, weeping women, disabled youths, and frail old people on television and video footage in later generations have had a tremendous impact on people's hearts. Comparatively speaking, the tragic and tragic bloodshed and sacrifice of soldiers is difficult to exchange for similar sympathy.

The origin of the tragedy.

In general, the main causes of civilian deaths in war are as follows: 1. Intimidation. Civilians are a fundamental part of the country's population. If the aggressor leaves civilians strewn with corpses and rivers of blood, not only will the cost be small and easy to implement, but it can also use an unusually strong shock effect to quickly destroy its people's will to resist, and achieve results that are difficult to achieve on the frontal battlefield.

During the war of aggression against China, after the Japanese army entered the city of Nanjing, they wantonly slaughtered unarmed civilians and soldiers who laid down their arms, in an attempt to make an example of the vast number of Chinese people who witnessed the tragic massacre of the city and pushed others to themselves and give up resistance. Active surrender. So as to successfully realize its strategic vision. Of course, there is also a desire to vent its wild selfishness.

2. Vendetta. Larger-scale massacres occurred during ethnic cleansing. The historical European Crusades were expeditions of fanatical Christians to exterminate the infidels.

Whether it is the Second World War or the subsequent World War II, Germany slaughtered 6 million so-called "inferior people" Jews under the pretext of pretending to maintain the purity of the Germanic people. The perpetrators believe that as long as they can exterminate the civilian population of the other side. Their race would then be the sole master of the land. Acquire the other party's wealth for free.

3. Retaliation. When the country's army is hit on the battlefield. Or when an adversary is too strong to confront him head-on, someone comes up with an easy way to retaliate - to settle accounts with your people. Later, after Heydrich, the head of the German police, was killed by the partisans in World War II, the SS massacred a village of Czechs. One of the clear signals is that you have to pay for it. After bombing Tokyo, the American pilot Doolittle during World War II made a forced landing in Chinese mainland and returned to the United States with the help of Chinese civilians, after which the Japanese army used biological and chemical weapons to sweep through Jiangsu and Zhejiang for more than a month.

Fourth, accidental injury. The term manslaughter is more sensitive because it is easily used as a pretext for disguised killing. Objectively, under the existing technical conditions, accidental injury is difficult to completely avoid, but as long as this problem is really paid attention to, accidental injury can be greatly reduced in reality. With the continuous updating of weapons and equipment and the gradual strengthening of the awareness of prevention, the number of accidental injuries in war has been decreasing. However, it is undeniable that some of the avoidable killings were not caused by mistakes, and that the name of "accidental injury" was only to escape public condemnation.

Civilians are a major component of any country, and failure to ensure the safety of civilians will have a direct impact on the normal functioning of state functions and the normal life of its citizens.

A gradual improvement in status does not imply the attainment of basic security. In any case, as a weak person who is difficult to change in war, civilians cannot be completely immune from the invasion of war.

To be sure, the coalition operations that caused a large number of civilian casualties in the Iraq War were not planned and organized government actions in the subsequent U.S. war against Iraq. However, this is an asymmetrical war, and Saddam's army, which is difficult to compete with the US military on a frontal battlefield, can only adopt the strategy of using troops to serve the people, so its civilians as a whole may be regarded as a threat by the US military, and the huge cost of guerrilla warfare and protracted warfare is the loss of civilian interests.

"Until it is proven that civilians are not a threat, all civilians are considered a threat by the U.S. military," the U.S. military declared. It's war, we're in a hostile country, and even if we're sitting on a street corner resting or eating, we're still fighting. "The idea of putting one's own security first is the motto of almost every American military member. In order to neutralize threats, sometimes even imaginary ones, they often preemptively shoot at civilians who are not actually a threat.

In the Korean War, American GIs created the avoidable Laogen-ri massacre, and in the Vietnam War, they often subjectively judged someone's possible identity based on their reaction after being warned to shoot. The practice of "shoot first, then ask who you are" has become the traditional and standard self-defense model of the US military. High-ranking officials also eloquently defended their subordinates, falsely claiming that the shooting of civilians by American soldiers was "a legitimate defense of last resort under special war conditions."

The general order of response of the U.S. military to war crimes allegations is: refuse to admit it, reduce the number of people, shirk responsibility, express regret, and apologize for compensation.

The characteristics of the civilian population determine its tragic role that is difficult to escape. However, civilians as individuals are not always allowed to be bullied at will. Those who sow melons and get melons, sow beans and get beans, and those who sow hatred will inevitably face the challenge of the Avengers. In the current Iraq war, a large number of peaceful residents who were not loyal to Saddam Hussein took up arms, because it was the Americans who invaded Iraq who killed their brothers and sisters.

The human bomb terrifies the U.S. military, and causes more civilians to be shot and killed by the U.S. military in a fit of tension and suspicion. The red-eyed parties will put aside all their scruples and take revenge as their only goal in life. This resentful and intertwined retaliatory response is an instinctive human need to ensure our own safety. The U.S. military command, which is struggling to get out of its security predicament, will express more regrets, Iraqi soil will give birth to more suicide heroes, and it is the isolated and helpless civilian population who will suffer the real catastrophe.

There is no resurrection from the dead. Verbal apologies are dissipated by the wind, leaving no trace, and the injured and the relatives and friends of the victims will live in nightmares for a long time. In any case, the innocent lives that have been lost in the war, the women, the elderly and children who are threatened by disease, hunger and fear, and the good and innocent residents of peace deserve wider protection and compassion!

Moreover, since the outbreak of the Iraq war, the US-British coalition forces have launched a killing campaign on Iraqi soil, killing and wounding a large number of Iraqi civilians in addition to striking hard at Iraqi troops. In the intensifying air raids, precision-guided weapons did not bring the expected precision bombing effect, and coalition artillery shells on the ground often landed in unarmed people. If this can be explained on the grounds that "it is too far to see clearly", then it is difficult for US soldiers to calm the condemnation of world public opinion when they strafe or fire rockets at Iraqi civilians at close range, causing a large number of innocent civilian casualties.

The blood of the Iraqi people has stained the Middle East, the land that once gave birth to an ancient civilization.

The relationship between civilians and war is the same regardless of the era.

Look all over the world wars, from the European continent to the east, where there is no war, where there is no bloodshed, where there are no homeless civilians.

It is the vast people's ocean formed by countless people that has the place where the giant ship of the country can live. The power of the people is like the hundred rivers that return to the sea, carrying the rise and fall of a country. The strength of the country does not mean how strong the military is, but in the hearts of the people. When the people are strong, the country is strong, and when the people are rich, the country is rich.

Chen Shao saw these things very thoroughly, and he himself understood very well that the people loved him, not because he was really a god. And he really paid for the people and solved the real difficulties of the people. He always adheres to a sentence, if he wants others to respect him from the heart, he must first respect others.

Only by treating the people as equals can you truly make the people regard you as adults.

Since ancient times, kings and officials, there are a few who really put themselves on an equal footing with the people. A word of adulthood, a long live, is just a compromise under fear.

In today's land of China, a new era has arrived.

The game between the great powers confirms the sentence, immortals fight mortals suffer. The most people died were civilians, among whom the Soviet Union was the most serious. In order to resist Germany, 50 percent of the young people in the entire Soviet Union put down their farm tools and were forced to join the army, using their flesh and blood to block the German artillery fire, and holding explosives bags to clear the way for the huge tank group behind.

This also directly led to the fact that a large number of civilians fell on the battlefield within a few days of joining the army. The farmland in the rear was also uncultivated, and grain production was rapidly decreasing. And the army spends taxes, in fact, every Soviet civilian, what he eats every day is just a mouthful of black bread.

Every day, a large number of old people and children starve to death at home, and they are not "qualified" to enjoy the food they put away.

On the battlefield, you live and die, and the soldiers serve the battlefield, so you deserve to die, but what about the civilians??? (To be continued......)

PS: War is always iron and blood!!

But since the enemy has used violence, we must counter violence with violence.