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Originally Posted by Silent Hunter
The 1977 Geneva Protocols state that this is perfidy, ergo a war crime. Was it in the past?
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Well, I stand corrected. I would think that the addition of it explicitly in 1977 indicates it was an oft used trick in the past. That's why you learn to clear weapons off bodies as you sweep objectives and to do checks to make sure they're really dead (eye thumps, knee to the groin, etc).
I'm also sure the right attorney would split hairs and argue that as long as you weren't faking wounds, and just lying there like you were dead but with a weapon, you are still a combatant. Don't know if it would fly, though.