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>>This is not an accident. This is refined and premeditated madness.
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>This statement is ridiculous. How can it be premeditated? Premeditated assumes that the soldiers intended to kill everyone in the vehicle from the start, before the vehicle even failed to stop at the checkpoint. They signalled the vehicle to stop and it did not. From media reports, they were remiss in firing a warning shot early enough. However, it is absolutely ridiculous to assume that a driver of any vehicle going through or approaching a checkpoint does NOT know to stop at the checkpoint. It does not matter what language you speak that is known all over the world. IT is VERY TRAGIC and hopefully will never happen again, but given the suicide bombs, what would you expect the soldiers to do? Let them pass and risk a suicide bomber driving a vehicle right in? That would be irresponsible and would risk the lives of many more people. IT is sad but a tragic result of the complexities of war and the at-times instantaneous decisions soldiers must make.

IT IS premeditated not for the fact they were “expecting and willing” to kill defenseless women and children but the fact that is NOT a random event which we can call accident. About what the media said there are at least 3 versions. Of course, a lot of reasons can be found to justify what happened (you mentioned only one), even for the classic suicide bombing (sometimes called unilaterally ‘unfair fighting’) but is none of my business since any war has no justification.
Your have your point (let’s call it opinion) and I have to respect that so I’m not going to judge your point of view as ridiculous but as slightly different than mine.