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Geneva Conventions
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The Geneva Conventions comprise four treaties and three additional protocols that set the standards in international law for humanitarian treatment of the victims of war. The singular term Geneva Convention refers to the agreements of 1949, negotiated in the aftermath of World War II, updating the terms of the first three treaties and adding a fourth treaty. The language is extensive, with articles defining the basic rights of those captured during a military conflict, establishing protections for the wounded, and addressing protections for civilians in and around a war zone.[…]
The civilized world is still trying to deal with the aftermath of the neocons.
The basic rights of those captured during a military conflict are still an issue in America. The issue was generated by the neocons’ bungling an attempt to take prisoners during the Iraq war. Renaming POWs to Detainees did not help.
The neocons’ “look ahead” feature may have failed for when they tried to get prosecutors to try the POWs in an American court of law, the issue of evidence came up. Evidence? Lack of evidence was a problem.
One high ranking neocon politician floated the idea of incarceration for life –without trial. That may be a “derived” assertion but what else could there be if you can’t try them and you can’t set them free because “they will harm Americans”. And after twenty-some-odd years of neocon wars and war-mongering, a good portion of the world might want to harm Americans.
Both the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations came under attack from America’s neocons. But the United Nations still seems to have a voice in the “current events” news pool. Not so, for the Geneva Conventions.
The neocons “penis slicing” and “water-boarding” trashed much of what the Geneva Conventions stood for. Name, rank and serial number was relegated to the refuse pile in favor of penis slicing and water-boarding. And it looks like the Geneva Convention/s has not recovered from the attacks on what it had achieved and stood for.
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