From: "Wes" <ghost-AT-MNSi.Net> Subject: Re: COVERT TERRORISM Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 22:17:20 -0500 > Another munificent lie. The entire Iraki death toll for the gulf war was > around 60k. The original claim for the Basra Highway was 10,000. That's > been lowered to less than 1,000. Substantially less. And I hate to point > it out but there is nothing in the rules of war that prohibits or > discourages attacking retreating armies. As a matter of fact, except in a > stalemate, normally one of the two warring parties is retreating. If the > forces of captial were retreating, what would you sugest, that we let them > reload? >From the Geneva Conventions: ================================== Common Article 3 of the 4 Geneva Conventions (non-international armed conflict) Article 3 In the case of armed conflict not of an international character occurring in the territory of one of the High Contracting Parties, each Party to the conflict shall be bound to apply, as a minimum, the following provisions: 1. Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds, detention, or any other cause, shall in all circumstances be treated humanely, without any adverse distinction founded on race, colour, religion or faith, sex, birth or wealth, or any other similar criteria. ================================== I'm not sure about the specific definition of a 'non-international armed conflict' but this article would seem to apply. The approximately ten thousand Iraqi soldiers were withdrawing from Kuwait in compliance with UN resloutions. American forces trapped them by disabling the vehicles at the front of the convoy and then proceeded to bomb them from above for many hours. Of the ten thousand or so retreating soldiers in the convoy approximately 300 survived to surrender. Also among the dead were busloads of 'liberated' Palestinians and Iraqi civilians who were used more or less as indentured workers in Kuwait City. Although many American military personnel later came forward to condemn this attack the U.S. government still claims that this was a 'classic tank battle'. Of course, what is written in the Geneva Conventions and what actually occurs are totally different animals... but I'll throw this in for consideration regardless. Cheers, WES
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