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Re: 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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Mon, 24 Mar 2003 09:00:51 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry "The Plagiarist" Pieniazek writes:
Look in the mirror:
1) Think about the way the USA treats POWs from Afghanistan.
2) Think about the war criminals the USA harbours within its borders.
3) Think about the war criminals the USA supports outside its borders.
4) Think about the USA's unwillingness to sign up to the international criminal
court.
5) Think about the allegations that the USA is torturing [via partners] POWs
from Afghanistan.
My sympathies go to the families involved; but not to Rumsfeld [for his
hypocrisy] or the news networks [for exploiting those involved].
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.
Iraqi POWs have had plenty "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.
By "parrots", I assume you mean "reports". In the UK we form our own opinions;
we don't need the news networks to do the work for us.
Scott A
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