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Was Moammar Qaddafi—who was wanted by the International Criminal Court for committing war crimes—himself a victim of a war crime? Amnesty International thinks it’s a good possibility:

Video footage which emerged yesterday appears to show that Colonel al-Gaddafi was alive when he was captured by anti-Gaddafi troops in Sirte yesterday. “If Colonel al-Gaddafi was killed after his capture, it would constitute a war crime and those responsible should be brought to justice,” said Claudio Cordone, Senior Director at Amnesty International.

Killing a combatant after he’s surrendered is a violation of both the International Criminal Court’s statutes and the Geneva Conventions. But as Foreign Policy‘s David Bosco points out in this excellent analysis, the fact that Qaddafi’s death likely was a war crime probably doesn’t matter.