Friday, December 2, 2011

Could someone possibly help me out with injustice in mistreatment of POWs.?

Also, how justice is upheld when it occurs, and how prevention of problems such as these happens. Thanks|||The 1st Geneva convention was drawn up to protect the interests of POW's and all who signed it were required to comply with it. http://www.ppu.org.uk/learn/texts/doc_ge鈥?/a>


Neither Japan nor the Soviet Union signed it. There were numerous post war executions of Japanese war criminals in respect of mistreatment of POWs and crimes against humanity. Not so against the Soviet Union, reasons for that are obvious. Germany was a signatory but there were violators who had to face justice post war. The youngest post war execution was of an 18 year old SS lieutenant for the shooting of 84 American POW's at the Maleday incident during the 1944/5 Ardennes offensive.... http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScra鈥?/a> see also.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malmedy_mas鈥?/a>


Prior to the Geneva convention you only had 'The articles of war' and whatever equivalents.


Earlier still one merely relied on a chivalrous code of conduct that wasn't always stood by, and in cases like Agincourt couldn't be.


This publitzer prize winning photo of an illegal execution by a senior Vietnamese officer of a Viet-cong guerrilla is a well known case of a criminal escaping justice. In spite of the events here, he still managed to setttle in America as a Pizza cook, a down come from being a General, he had to move about in life as his reputation pursued him, but surely he should have been imprisoned? see...http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.鈥?/a>

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