Talk:Geneva Conventions
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Countries recently in breach of the Geneva Conventions
Countries which have recently breached the Geneva Conventions include:
- Iraq (chemical warfare and multiple abuses)
- United Kingdom (shoot to kill policy in Northern Ireland)
- United States of America (failure to prevent massacre of POWs in Afghanistan; systematic human rights abuses in treatment of prisoners)
- Israel (systematic human rights abuses; systematic maltreatment of prisoners)
- Russia (systematic and routine maltreatment of prisoners in Chechnya)
- Burundi (attacks on International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC))
- Zaire (attacks on ICRC)
- Rwanda (attacks on ICRC)
According to whom are these breaches? Certainly the attacks in Rwanda and the unmentioned acts in the Yugoslavian war should be mentioned since an international court is trying these crimes. I am not aware of any other action on this list being tryed in international courts. What was the standard for making this list?
I agree. Most of the items on this list, regardless of one's opinion of them, or possible violation of other conventions, simply do not fall under the Geneva Conventions at all. --Roger 14 Aug 2003
Could someone reference this? I don't ever recall reading this in the Geneva Conventions.
- In the field, soldiers of a signatory who carry prohibited equipment or perform prohibited actions are subject to summary field execution without a trial. This is usually carried out on prisoners of war who are captured with prohibited equipment. It may be ordered by the senior officer of a group that observed an atrocity and can recognize participating individuals.
- You may need to look in the Hague Declaration. Rmhermen 04:32, Oct 24, 2003 (UTC)
Like the case of USA, a good reference would be this guys advice [1] (http://home.uchicago.edu/~jgoldsmi/goldsmithhead.JPG) that ended up on this story [2] (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3949843.stm)
A couple of corrections. First, alleged violations of the Geneva Conventions are not heard by the International Court of Justice; it has no jurisdiction over criminal acts. For those states which have joined the International Criminal Court (ICC), war crimes including breaches of the Geneva Conventions can be heard there; the United States is not a party to the ICC. Second, on the above comment about summary execution, the 1907 Hague Regulations have been modified by the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 to prohibit any kind of summary execution. A good place to consult is Crimes of War (http://www.crimesofwar.org). Ken 20 November 2004
breach of geneva convention
- United States of America (failure to prevent massacre of POWs in Afghanistan; systematic human rights abuses in treatment of prisoners)
wouldn't al-qaida and the taliban need to be signatories of the geneva convention before you could say that the united states breached the conventions in regard to its treatment of al-qaida and taliban combatants? i'm not sure that the conventions are meant to be construed as binding law upon all nations, including those that were not signatory to them. and if you are going to say that the united states breached the conventions in regard to treatment of al-qaida prisoners, wouldnt you also have to list al-qaida as breaching the conventions for its attacks on civilians?
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