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Even assuming that the Russian estimate that its unguided bombs have a 25 m CEP is
correct, this means that 50 per cent of the weapons would fall within a 25 m CEP and the
remaining 50 per cent outside of that. Using such weapons in a densely civilian populated
area was certain to impact civilians.
31.
All sides in a conflict must distinguish between legitimate military targets on the one
hand and civilians and civilian objects on the other and use methods or means of combat
that are able to be directed at a specific military objective. There is no evidence to indicate
that this attack deliberately targeted civilians or the Atarib market. Through the use of
unguided bombs, including blast weapons in a densely civilian populated area, however,
this attack may amount to the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in
death and injury to civilians.
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