Monday, August 25, 2003

U.S. should follow Geneva Convention too

'When Iraqi military officials paraded five captured U.S. soldiers in front of television cameras last fall, this indignity was immediately denounced by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who correctly observed that "it is against the Geneva Convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them."

But those provisions would also apply to captured Taliban fighters held by the U.S. in Cuba, some of whom were photographed kneeling on the ground, with their hands behind their back, wearing hoods or blacked-out goggles...'

See the following article for additional examples of U.S. hypocrisy on this issue.

Ends and Means - The New American - Insider Report - August 25, 2003

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