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Originally posted by Paul Waters
From whom?
I, as an individual, am not bound by the Geneva convention.
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An individual does not need to be acting under government authority to be tried for war crimes. There were cases of this during World War II.
The conventions also apply to occupied nations and specfically say so. In this case, they apply to all Iraqi citizens.
An interesting twist is that citizens of a country (occupied or not) which are not bound by the convention are not protected by it. You can't have it both ways and that is how the conventions are designed. You are either protected by and responsible for following them or neither.