Treatment of Prisoners of War is Inappropriate

Abstract

The U.S. and several nations agreed to abide to the Geneva Convention, a defining guideline and ethical rules for the treatment of prisoners of war. Article 17 of the Geneva Convention clearly states "No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to extract from them information" (TC 27-10-3, The law of War, 1995, p. 9). The United States have partly failed to uphold the Geneva Convention, and Habeus Corpus making it irrelevant. This violation during our fight on the War on Global Terrorism in the past three years relates to treatment of the United States enemy combatants previously held in Abu Ghraib prison, and those unlawfully imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay prison camp, Cuba.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 18, 2008
Accession Number
AD1138024

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People

  • Thomas

Organizations

  • United States Army Sergeants Major Academy

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Geneva Conventions
  • Governments
  • Human Rights
  • Imprisonment
  • International Law
  • Joint Military Activities
  • Law
  • Military Personnel
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Prisoners
  • Prisoners Of War
  • Prisons
  • Public Opinion
  • Security
  • United States

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  • Strategic Security Studies