Geneva Conventions Out the Window!
Oh my god, nooooo! No, no, no!! This is not my Canada!!!
How can we possibly live with this?!?
UPDATE 31May06:
UPDATE 2 02Jun06:
Have a look at this reminder to be wary of the puppeteer.
Troops told Geneva rules don't apply to Taliban
PAUL KORING
Globe and Mail Update
WASHINGTON — Canadian troops in Afghanistan have been told the Geneva Conventions and Canadian regulations regarding the rights of prisoners of war don't apply to Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters captured on the battlefield.
That decision strips detainees of key rights and protections under the rules of war, including the right to be released at the end of the conflict and not to be held criminally liable for lawful combat.
“The whole purpose of those regulations is to know if Geneva applies,” said Amir Attaran, a law professor at the University of Ottawa who has been pressing the Defence Department for details of its detainee policy for months.
How can we possibly live with this?!?
UPDATE 31May06:
Canadians following rules of war, O'Connor saysThat's a relief!
CTV.ca News Staff
Prisoners captured in Afghanistan by Canadian forces will have the rights accorded to them by the Geneva Convention, Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor said Wednesday.
"When they take prisoners, they will always follow the rules of the Geneva Convention, no lower standard than that," he told the Commons.
His comments are in response to an article published in Wednesday's Globe and Mail.
UPDATE 2 02Jun06:
Have a look at this reminder to be wary of the puppeteer.
posted by berlynn at 11:53 p.m.
5 Comments:
With the Geneva Conventions, it's all or none. You can't cherrypick which part of an international agreement you'll stick to and which you'll toss out the window! Those Conventions are important, lest we forget!!
You can't say the troops are "at war" then in the next breath say international standards for conducting war don't have to be met. Shame on us.
Might want to check out what The Juror has to say.
O' Connor says we will apply the Geneva convention.
Yes. I've updated and included a link to the CTV story. Thank goodness!
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