Demanding the detention of non-combatants to force a political or military concession from an opposing party constitutes the war crime of hostage-taking under international humanitarian law.
These public pronouncements by a sitting minister of national security remove any pretext of self-defense, laying bare a doctrine of unmitigated aggression that demands formal international accountability, prosecution, and punitive sanctions.
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