Its been a few years since the Geneva Convention has been talked about, but like I said then, its laughable.
I'm not suggesting that prisoners get tortured, nor am I justifying anything that happened in those prisons. Anyone who's read my responses knows that I condemed them.
With that said, putting rules in place that can only be enforced by the winners of the war is a waste of time. Either the warring parties have rules in place for their own code of conduct or they don't. The Convention cannot be enforced. Sure, people are prosecuted under its name, but its nothing but a sham.
How many North Koreans were prosecuted under it? None. Why? Because they didn't sign it? It is true they never ratified the treaty. So, do the rules only apply to those that sign a piece of paper?
Ok. How about North Vietnam. They signed the treaty. However, the Vietnamese added the condition that prisoners of war prosecuted and convicted for war crimes or for crimes against humanity, in accordance with the Nuremberg Court shall not benefit from the Convention. Citing that clause, the North Vietnamese took the position that U.S. pilots who dropped bombs on their soldiers and civilians in an undeclared war were war criminals, preventing them from the protections of the convention. While the North Vietnamese asserted publicly that their treatment of American POWs was humane, they tortured the majority of American POWs during the war.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/f...ps_geneva.html
Prisoners should be treated humanely. No torture. No summary executions. The Geneva Convention is not a necessary article to that. If a country doesn't abide by their own rules, what can anyone do about it afterward - nothing.
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