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Re: Geneva Convention on POW treatment is just another inconvenience to the Iraqi Regime?
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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 00:52:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> From:
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2878521.stm
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> Square this:
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> 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."
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> with this:
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> An ICRC spokeswoman said it was very clear that prisoners of war should not
> be subject to public exposure.
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> "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.
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> 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.
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> 1 - Funny, the BBC left that bit out.
The Iraq military really knows how to treat people....they received a report
that a pilot ejected and landed in the tigris river in baghdad...so what
does the irag military do? ...they shoot at the river....nice way to take pows.
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