Even if that's true legally, what a dumb decision tactically. Killing surrendering troops means fewer surrenders and results in more deaths for your side.
Morally, you're also killing someone with no intent on harming you who isn't an immediate threat. Sure, its not quite straightforwardly wrong, but it sure isn't right.
Re:How to Surrender to a Drone
by survirtual on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:30AM
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It seems pretty straightforwardly wrong actually.
> In one chilling incident [the documents] detail how an Apache helicopter gunship gunned down two men in February 2007. The suspected insurgents had been trying to surrender but a lawyer back at base told the pilots: ‘You cannot surrender to an aircraft.'
https://fpif.org/wikileaks_you_cannot_surrender_to_an_aircra...