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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:

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.

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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  Re: Geneva Convention on POW treatment is just another inconvenience to the Iraqi Regime?
 
(...) Another reason to kick their miserable a$$es. If we did that in the U.S. people would practically overthrow the government... this just goes to show how bad Saddam has gotten and why we should remove him and his corrupt, totalitarian regime. (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Geneva Convention on POW treatment is just another inconvenience to the Iraqi Regime?
 
(...) It looked like more of a mob to me. Given the pictures of the conflict shown on al Jazeera, I wonder how [the collective] you would react if the tables were turned? al Jazeera: (URL) this site have an English version?] Scott A (22 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Geneva Convention on POW treatment is just another inconvenience to the Iraqi Regime?
 
From: (URL) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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