Monday, May 03, 2004

 

The Geneva Convention is written in plain language

I've had a pointer to the Geneva Convention on Treatment of Prisoners of War on this page (look down and to your right . . . ) since the inception of this blog. The Abu Ghraib prison outrages are clear violations. Article 3 says,
. . . the following acts are and shall remain prohibited at any time and in any place whatsoever with respect to the above-mentioned persons:
(a) Violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds, mutilation, cruel treatment and torture;
(b) Taking of hostages;
(c) Outrages upon personal dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment;
And now they're putting Major-General Geoffery Miller, the Guantanamo guy, in charge of Abu Ghraib, as if that's going to fix the problem?

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