> 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.
PoW footage 'breaks convention' [the text you cite] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2881187.stm
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PoWs should not be used as part of the propaganda war between the two sides,
and all warring factions should respect that, says Ms Notari, a former PoW in
Somalia herself.
Those rules should have also been applied to images of PoWs at the US base of
Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
"At that time, we approached the US authorities to ask them not to use these
pictures," she says.
For more than a year now, the American Government has been criticised for the
way it has treated hundreds of prisoners from the fighting in Afghanistan
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Scott: "America admits suspects died in interrogations" (URL) over here in the States, as you may recall, so I ask you: what sort of source is the Independent? My only bigger point is that we are all of us whores for our side -- no one is innocent. (...) (21 years ago, 24-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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 (...) (21 years ago, 23-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
