Unlike Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom hides some Koroks in plain sight and challenges you to reunite them with their friends, often encouraging the player to do so using some Ultrahand ingenuity. Naturally, many players immediately began torturing them instead. With Hyrule technically at war once again, this made me wonder if the treatment of these Koroks represented a violation of the Geneva Conventions, and folks, I believe it does.
There's an argument to be made that these stranded Koroks would qualify as "infirm" non-combatants under the Geneva Conventions, and I'm here to make said argument. They are, after all, immobilized in part due to their advanced age and tiny, weak, cabbage-like bodies. In this case, these Koroks would likely fall under Article 16 on the protection of civilians in the go-to 1949 Geneva Conventions, listed by the International Committee of the Red Cross: "The wounded and sick, as well as the infirm, and expectant mothers, shall be the object of particular protection and respect."
