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Cases include that of rotting chicken carcases found in a well at At-tuwani near Hebron in 2004, although suspected settlers blamed Arab infighting. In recent years, unconfirmed reports of well contamination by Israeli settlers in the West Bank have surfaced. There are also accusations of well-poisoning as a part of the Srebrenica massacre. Most notoriously, Serbs were accused of poisoning Kosovo Albanians. ( November 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Īccusations of well-poisoning have also been brought up against Serbs. Please help improve this article if you can. The specific problem is: grammar and readability. This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. With the decline of plague in Europe, these accusations lessened, but the term 'well-poisoning' remains a loaded one that continues to crop up even today among anti-Semites around the world. An outbreak of plague thus became the trigger for Black Death persecutions, with hundreds of Jews burned at the stake, or rounded up in synagogues and private houses that were then set aflame. The city-dwelling Jews of the Middle Ages, living in walled-up, segregated ghetto districts, aroused suspicion. In their distress, emotionally distraught survivors searched desperately for an explanation. Crowded cities were especially hard hit by the disease, with death tolls as high as 50% of the population. Europe was hit by several waves of Black Death (often identified as bubonic plague) throughout the late Middle Ages. Any sudden deterioration of health was often blamed on poisoning. See also: Antisemitic canard and Persecution of Jews during the Black Deathĭespite some vague understanding of how diseases could spread, the existence of viruses and bacteria was unknown in medieval times, and the outbreak of disease could not be scientifically explained.

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Most notably Islam, in its scripture, dictates that water-bodies may not be poisoned even during a battle and enemies must be allowed access to water. A few religions have laws condemning such scorched earth tactics. Nevertheless, German forces during First World War poisoned wells in France as part of Operation Alberich. During the 20th century, the practice of poisoning wells has lost most of its potency and practicality against an organized force as modern military logistics ensure secure and decontaminated supplies and resources. Nearly 500 years later during the Winter War, the Finns rendered wells unusable by planting animal carcasses or feces in them in order to passively combat invading Soviet forces. Whilst retreating through Turkish-controlled Bulgaria, across the Danube River and back to the capital of Wallachia that same year, Vlad's army employed the poisoning of wells and other sources of water, as well as other scorched earth tactics en route to his country on both sides of the Danube, meaning that he deliberately polluted the water supplies of his fellow Romanians even at the cost of their lives if it slowed down his Muslim foes. In 1462, for example, Prince Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia utilized this method to delay his pursuing Ottoman Turk adversaries. Well poisoning has been used as an important scorched earth tactic at least since ancient times. In both cases the accusation was never substantiated, but did lead to wide-scale persecution and pogroms against the group so accused. Similar accusations were also made of Koreans living in Japan in the aftermath of the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Rotting corpses (both animal and human) thrown down wells were the most common implementation in one of the earliest examples of biological warfare, corpses known to have died from common transmissible diseases of the Pre-Modern era such as bubonic plague or tuberculosis were especially favored for well-poisoning.Īdditionally, well poisoning was one of the three gravest antisemitic accusations made against Jews during the pre-modern period (the other two being host desecration and blood libel). Well poisoning has been historically documented as a strategy during wartime since antiquity, and was used both offensively (as a terror tactic to disrupt and depopulate a target area) and defensively (as a scorched earth tactic to deny an invading army sources of clean water). Well poisoning is the act of malicious manipulation of potable water resources in order to cause illness or death, or to deny an opponent access to fresh water resources. For the logical fallacy, see Poisoning the well.

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