"To be honest if I'm in command, I'd rather commit war crime and thermobaric the whole lot ..."
Then I am glad that you are not in command.
In 1984, Sikh nationalists defiantly occupied the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India.
Rather than bombard the Golden Temple into oblivion, Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian Army to storm it.
There ensued a brutal close-quarter battle. The Indian soldiers took heavy losses and evidently committed many war crimes.
"
attributed high civilian casualties to the Indian Government's attempt at a full frontal
assault on the militants, diverging from the recommendations provided by the
."
"On 4 June no warning was provided to the pilgrims to evacuate and the pilgrims were deterred of leaving as the Indian army
would arrest anyone who left the temple complex. ... The eyewitness testimony of survivors of the army's assault on the temple
complex were consistent with stating that they were unaware of the start of the attack by the army until it took place without
notice on the morning of 4 June.
On 6 June the Indian military detained surviving pilgrims on the grounds that they
were affiliated with the militants and subjected them to interrogations, beatings and executions."
"The military action in the temple complex was criticized by Sikhs worldwide, who interpreted it as an assault on the Sikh religion.
Many Sikh soldiers in the army
their units,
several Sikhs resigned from civil administrative office and returned awards
received from the
. Five months after the operation, on 31 October 1984, Indira Gandhi was
in an act
of revenge by her two Sikh bodyguards,
and
.
Public outcry over Gandhi's death led to a state
organized pogrom leading to the killing of more than 3,000-17,000 Sikhs across India, in the ensuing
."
--Wikipedia
In the Second World War, Germany had the deadliest chemical weapon--Tabun, the first 'nerve gas'--in the world.
"Tabun was made on an industrial scale by Germany during World War II, based on a process developed by
.
In the chemical agent factory in
, codenamed "Hochwerk", at least 12,000 metric tons of this agent
were manufactured between 1942 and 1945."
But, even in extremis, Hitler never ordered the employment of chemical weapons.
Hitler committed suicide without ever using Tabun against the RKKA.
