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Originally Posted by Hawkeye
Does the Geneva Convention require immediate trials for each and every enemy soldier captured on the battlefield? I wasn't aware of that. Link?
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yup, they do from article 103:
"Judicial investigations relating to a prisoner of war shall be conducted as rapidly as circumstances permit and so that his trial shall take place as soon as possible."
been a few years hasn't it?
http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/91.htm < if you want to read more about it..
problem is.. when five US soldiers were paraded in front of the iraqi television cameras for instance, mr Rumsfeld immediately complained that "it is against the geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them"...
so atleast he knows about the convention...