OT: Captured Troops

[Aloofi]

By the way, who was the first showing enemy prisioners of war on TV?
CNN or Iraki TV?

[Phoenix-D]

"By the way, who was the first showing enemy prisioners of war on TV?
CNN or Iraki TV?"

Just curious, but what does this have to do with anything?

Phoenix-D

[phaet2112]

Illuminating the hypocritical nature of the sec. of defense and our own media (Paula Zahn on CNN the morning the men and women were shown on video saying "this is ghastly and disgusting." yet cuts to our own footage of us leading iraqi troops away.) And loudly proclaming how many troops we've captured, and how well we are treating them, in comparison to the people still detained at guantanomo bay or the possibly hundreds we've killed in afghanistan.

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:


Just curious, but what does this have to do with anything?

Phoenix-D

It is a breach of Geneva Convention? Yes indeed, POWs have NOT to be shown in TV !

Article 13

Prisoners of war must at all times be humanely treated. Any unlawful act or omission by the Detaining Power causing death or seriously endangering the health of a prisoner of war in its custody is prohibited, and will be regarded as a serious breach of the present Convention. In particular, no prisoner of war may be subjected to physical mutilation or to medical or scientific experiments of any kind which are not justified by the medical, dental or hospital treatment of the prisoner concerned and carried out in his interest.

Likewise, prisoners of war must at all times be protected , particularly against acts of violence or intimidation and against insults and public curiosity . Measures of reprisal against prisoners of war are prohibited.

But who cares, god bless america.

[ March 25, 2003, 21:56: Message edited by: PsychoTechFreak ]

[Phoenix-D]

"It is a breach of Geneva Convention? Yes indeed, POWs have NOT to be shown in TV"

And in the WTF catagory..
EDIT:
"against insults and public curiosity"

To me that sounds more like don't be sticking them in the stockades for people to laugh at, not a one minute clip of random soldiers being led away.

Anyway:
"Illuminating the hypocritical nature of the sec. of defense and our own media (Paula Zahn on CNN the morning the men and women were shown on video saying "this is ghastly and disgusting." yet cuts to our own footage of us leading iraqi troops away.)"

I think the point here was the killing POWs vs well, not killing them or treating them that badly.

"And loudly proclaming how many troops we've captured, and how well we are treating them, in comparison to the people still detained at guantanomo bay or the possibly hundreds we've killed in afghanistan."

The definition of treated well from a criminal and a POW are somewhat different. POWs don't get access to lawyers, which is what the complaining in the cuba base was about. And killed..hello, you do military operations, people die. Sort of a fact of life.

Phoenix-D

[ March 25, 2003, 22:01: Message edited by: Phoenix-D ]

[PsychoTechFreak]

Originally posted by Phoenix-D:

And in the WTF catagory..

What the f.. does this abbrev. mean?

EDIT:
"against insults and public curiosity"

To me that sounds more like don't be sticking them in the stockades for people to laugh at, not a one minute clip of random soldiers being led away

Well, it is a matter of interpretation, but of course, what we have seen from Al-jazeera TV and their question/answer games has been another story.

[tesco samoa]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/st...921192,00.html

an interesting article about the prisoners and the Taliban prisoners...