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Geneva Convention on POW treatment is just another inconvenience to the Iraqi Regime?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Date:
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Sun, 23 Mar 2003 21:29:18 GMT
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From:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2878521.stm
Square this:
Iraq's Defence Minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, said Iraq would "not harm the
captured prisoners of war". "It will treat them in accordance with the
Geneva Convention on prisoners of war."
with this:
An ICRC spokeswoman said it was very clear that prisoners of war should not
be subject to public exposure.
"Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention says clearly that prisoners of
war must at all times be protected... against insult and public curiosity,"
ICRC spokeswoman Nada Doumani told Reuters news agency.
Given their record in the last conflict, where they repeatedly beat
prisoners until they said what they were told to(1), I wouldn't put much
credence in the quotes the BBC parrots, though.
1 - Funny, the BBC left that bit out.
++Lar
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