So just what does the Geneva Convention say about treatment of illegal combatants?
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So just what does the Geneva Convention say about treatment of illegal combatants?
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How does the Geneva Convention say terrorists, in no uniform, picked up in foreign lands, trying to kill US soldiers and other civilians, should be treated?
And has the USA agreed to that portion of the convention?
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Sham W
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Actually... the Geneva Convention is quite clear......
When they shed their uniform....
When they intentionally hide among non-combatants....
When they intentionally use civilians as shields....
They get NO protection under the Convention.
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dlk
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The Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists, as these terrorists are not one particular country. |
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sgoldperson
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The U.S. signed on to the Geneva Convention back when it started. It says nothing about "enemy combatants", and some say that was the whole point of the term. To be fair it includes people in ARMIES, that wear UNIFORMS, so this term was just about people that aren't technically mentioned. |
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thegubmint
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It says nothing about them, other than saying than the conventions don't apply to them. In previous wars, those types were summarily executed. |
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Pfo
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The Geneva Convention does not apply to armed forces that don't follow its convention. |
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wizjp
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"emeny combatants" have no legal status under the Geneva convention.
Nor should they |
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tonalc2
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The four Geneva Conventions apply, respectively, to four different general groupings of protected persons: (1) wounded soldiers on the battlefield, (2) wounded, sick and shipwrecked members of armed forces at sea, (3) prisoners of war, and (4) civilians in time of war. (Interestingly, it is the Fourth Geneva Convention relating to civilians under occupation, or otherwise in a war zone, that, outside of Common Article 3, arguably comes closest to addressing terrorists. The Fourth Geneva Convention in Article 5 focuses on spies, saboteurs and others hostile to a detaining power who, by definition under that treaty’s Article 4, are not considered regular POW’s.)
All four Geneva Conventions of 1949 contain the same Article 3, declaring that “[i]n the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum” the provisions of Chapter 3.
The Supreme Court held that “international” did not mean “global” but rather “intern-nation” or “between nations.” Because al-Qaeda is not a nation-state, the court held, the conflict with al-Qaeda was not inter-nation, or international, however global in might be. Under the language of Common Article 3, the court deemed the conflict with al-Qaeda an “armed conflict not of an international character.”
Here are the provisions of Chapter 3:
requires humane treatment of persons taking no active part in the hostilities, i.e., including detainees since removed from combat, without discrimination based on ethnicity, religion, gender or wealth
prohibits violence to life and person, such as murder, mutilation, torture and cruel treatment
prohibits “outrages upon personal dignity” including “humiliating and degrading treatment”
requires that punitive sentences and executions (i.e., criminal punishments) be pronounced only by a “regularly constituted court” that “afford[s] all the judicial guarantees … recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples”
prohibits hostage-taking
requires the wounded and sick to be cared for
indicates that “an impartial humanitarian body” like the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) may offer its services |
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lightningfastfords
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Your first answer is correct they represent no county cary no patch on there shoulder just a group of thugs over priced gang bangers |
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Gavin R
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The Geneva Conventions lay down no rules for the treatment of irregular forces.Put basically it ignores their existence.It's our Liberals who afford them rights.For example a person in Afghanistan is caught engaging Coalition forces,the troops are within their rights to headjob him.Problem is they can't because of the rules of engagement. |
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Alan S
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it says absolutely nothing because "Illegal enemy combatant" is a termed created under the last administration to avoid the Geneva Convention protections for Prisoners Of War. Prior to the creation of that new category, they would have been deemed POWs. Keep in mind that it's that very term that is allowing those captives to take their cases to ur court system, if GWB had simply called them POWs and played by the rules then we'd be able to let the military deal with them.
And just for the record, as defined, anyone not wearing the uniform of a govt military, carrying out military functions in a war zone, qualify to be that. This is exactly what Blackwater was in Iraq. |
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Dave87gn
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First of all , you assumed that these people are terrorists
Some of these people have been picked by mistake, and they never get the opportunity to tell a judge "you got the wrong guy"
they were tortured instead
And the geneva convention says the red cross will determine torture, and the red cross has said GEORGE BUSH TORTURED |
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