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| | Prisoner of war - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Similarly, during the Vietnam War, American service members captured by North Vietnam were routinely beaten and tortured in violation of their status as prisoners of war. | | | Since the special rights of a prisoner of war, granted by governments, are the result of multilateral treaties, these definitions have no legal effect and those claiming rights under these definitions would legally be considered common criminals under an arresting jurisdiction's laws. | | | One of the main provisions of the convention makes it illegal to torture prisoners, and states that a prisoner can only be required to give his name, date of birth, rank and service number (if applicable). |
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| | American Revolutionary War - encyclopedia article about American Revolutionary War. |
| | American Patriots Patriots (also known as Partisans, Whigs or Rebels) were British North American colonists who rebelled against the Crown during the American Revolution and established the independent states that became the United States of America. | | | Full of resentment, Native Americans reluctantly confirmed these land cessions with the United States in a series of treaties, but the result was essentially an armed truce — the fighting would be renewed in conflicts along the frontier, the largest being the Northwest Indian War. | | | The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) was one part of the revolution, but the revolution began before the first shot was fired at Lexington and Concord and continued after the British surrender at Yorktown. |
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| | Results of the French and Indian War (from American Revolution) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia |
| | Members of the armed forces who are captured and confined during war are called prisoners of war, or POWs. | | | Underlying the American Revolution were unresolved abuses by the British Parliament and Crown, as specified in the Declaration of Independence. | | | The war followed more than a decade of growing estrangement between the British crown and a large and influential segment of its North American colonies that was caused by British attempts to assert greater control... |
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| | American Women Prisoners of War |
| | During World War One both Edith Cavell and Mata Hari were prisoners of war and were executed for being spies. | | | Florena Budwin, wife of a Pennsylvania soldier of the Civil War disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Union Army to be near her husband. | | | During the Civil War Dr. Mary Walker was held for four months in a Confederate prison camp, accused of being a spy for the Union Army. |
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| | Privateers or Merchant Mariners help win the Revolutionary War |
| | Young James Forten expected to be sold into slavery in the West Indies, as was British custom with their black prisoners of war. | | | American Prisoners of the Revolution: Names of 8000 Men | | | This was considered the first sea engagement of the Revolution and the start of the merchant marine's war role. |
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| | World War links |
| | American Ex - Prisoners of War - a congresionally chartered non-profit organization The American Ex-Prisoners of War organization is a national organization for American citizens who were captured by the enemy. | | | Prisoners of War - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I - includes personal accounts, a secret newspaper, and great insight into what it meant to be a prisoner of war., specifically at Stalag Luft I. It contains photos, stories, the secret camp newspaper, official military intelligence documents, news clippings, etc. | | | The Nuremburg War Crimes Trial- A full listing of all documents |
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| | Georgia History-The American Revolution |
| | The early years of the American Revolution were quiet in Georgia. | | | By the begriming of the 1770's Georgia was the least populated of the 13 American colonies. | | | Of the 50,000 inhabitants, half were slaves, and almost all of it's citizens were clustered near the coast. |
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| | Revolutionary War Timeline |
| | American prisoners taken were hanged or turned over to the Cherokees to be tortured and killed. | | | This was a decisive victory for the Patriots and a turning point in the Revolutionary War. | | | Francis Marion attacked British convoy and released 150 Americans who had been taken prisoner at the Battle of Camden. |
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| | Today in History: April 19 |
| | There is also an interesting exchange on the treatment of prisoners of war in their correspondence during the year 1775. | | | Tradition holds that Schackburg invented his lyrics in 1755 while at the home of the Van Rensselaer family attending a wounded prisoner of the French and Indian War. | | | Yankee Doodle is now their paean, a favorite of favorites, played in their army, esteemed as warlike as the Genadier's March — it is the lover's spell, the nurse's lullaby…it was not a little mortifying to hear them play this tune, when their army marched down to our surrender. |
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| | Women Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War |
| | Did you know that there were women prisoners of war? | | | Regardless of which is the authentic version, the fact is that Deborah Samson served her country, in uniform, in the Revolutionary War. | | | She enlisted for the whole term of the war as Robert Shirtliffe and served in the company of Captain Nathan Thayer of Medway, Massachusetts. |
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| | U.S. Civil War Center -- Chalmette National Cemetery |
| | Approximately 132 Confederate prisoners of war were buried at Chalmette until the Ladies' Benevolent Association of New Orleans requested that these soldiers be moved out of Chalmette, which is comprised entirely of Union soldiers, to the Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. | | | The cemetery was established in May of 1864 as a final resting place for Civil War dead, both Confederate and Union soldiers alike. | | | While most of the individuals interred are veterans, civilians such as spouses, children, and employees of the War Department are also included. |
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| | American Women in Uniform, Veterans Too! |
| | The War of 1812 and Spanish American War | | | The story of Ginnie and Lottie Moon is a fascinating one - two sisters who cleverly and brazenly spied for the Confederates during the Civil War - and got away with it. | | | Her father was an airman in Vietnam; her 77-year-old grandfather served with the Army in Germany during World War II; and his stepbrother was a Marine codetalker in Japan during the same war. |
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| | From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Waldo's diary |
| | The Enemy have been at Chestnut Hill Opposite to us near our last encampment the other side Schuylkill, made some Ravages, kill'd two of our Horsemen, taken some prisoners. | | | Militia and dragoons brought into Camp several Prisoners. | | | A Bridge of Waggons made accross the Schuylkill last Night consisting of 36 waggons, with a bridge of Rails between them each. |
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| | Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolutionary War |
| | Virtual Marching Tour of the American Revolutionary War | | | When the American army leaves Valley Forge, the tide of the war turns. | | | We are currently working on additional chapters of the war. |
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| | American Merchant Marine at War - Revolution to World War II to today |
| | As time goes on, there will be greater public understanding of our merchant's fleet record during this war [World War II]." | | | Dedicated to the Mariners who died in service of their country during all Wars, including Revolutionary War, World War II, Korea, Vietnam; and their U.S. Naval Armed Guard shipmates | | | Belated Thank You to Merchant Mariners of World War II H.R. Struggle for Veteran Status |
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| | Prisoner of war - the free encyclopedia |
| | For instance, in World War II, Soviet prisoners of Nazi Germany and Germanprisoners of the Soviet Union were often treated with neglect and brutality. | | | Who and What arePolitical Prisoners (PP) and Prisoners of War (POW) -- Anarchist Black Cross Federation | | | Since the special rightsof a prisoner of war, granted by governments, is the result of multilateral treaties, thesedefinitions have no legal effect and those claiming rights under these definitions wouldlegally be considered common criminals under an arresting jurisdiction's laws. |
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| | Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War |
| | Prisoners of war who are paroled or who have given their promise in conformity with the laws and regulations so notified, are bound on their personal honour scrupulously to fulfil, both towards the Power on which they depend and towards the Power which has captured them, the engagements of their paroles or promises. | | | Prisoners of war may not be sentenced by the military authorities and courts of the Detaining Power to any penalties except those provided for in respect of members of the armed forces of the said Power who have committed the same acts. | | | Prisoners of war who, though not attached to the medical service of their armed forces, are physicians, surgeons, dentists, nurses or medical orderlies, may be required by the Detaining Power to exercise their medical functions in the interests of prisoners of war dependent on the same Power. |
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| | Rules of war - definition of Rules of war in Encyclopedia |
| | Among other issues, the laws of war address declaration of war, acceptance of surrender and the treatment of prisoners of war; the avoidance of atrocities; the prohibition on deliberately attacking civilians; and the prohibition of certain inhumane weapons. | | | During conflict, punishment for violating the laws of war may consist of a specific, deliberate and limited violation of the laws of war in reprisal. | | | It is a violation of the laws of war to engage in combat without meeting certain requirements, among them the wearing of a distinctive uniform or other easily identifiable badge and the carrying of weapons openly. |
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| | The Avalon Project - Laws of War : Laws and Customs of War on Land (Hague II); July 29, 1899 |
| | Prisoners of war may be set at liberty on parole if the laws of their country authorize it, and, in such a case, they are bound, on their personal honor, scrupulously to fulfill, both as regards their own Government and the Government by whom they were made prisoners, the engagements they have contracted. | | | Gifts and relief in kind for prisoners of war shall be admitted free of all duties of entry and others, as well as of payments for carriage by the Government railways. | | | Every prisoner of war, if questioned, is bound to declare his true name and rank, and if he disregards this rule, he is liable to a curtailment of the advantages accorded to the prisoners of war of his class. |
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| | BBC News AMERICAS Q&A: Al-Qaeda prisoners' rights |
| | Also, certain restrictions on interrogation of prisoners-of-war, contained in the Geneva conventions, will not apply. | | | The US insists that the detainees do not qualify for prisoner-of-war treatment under the Geneva conventions, because they are not members of the regular Afghan armed force - nor do they meet the criteria for prisoner of war status for voluntary forces. | | | The detainees are being taken to a place outside of United States territory to minimise the application of legal constraints that might otherwise apply. |
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| | Society of Professional Journalists |
| | Finally, and most importantly, prisoners of war may not be punished for the acts they committed during the fighting unless the opposing side would have punished its own soldiers for those acts as well. | | | Prisoners of war must be immediately evacuated away from a combat zone and must not be unnecessarily exposed to danger. | | | Many of these agencies and organizations collect case histories and other documentation of war crimes and human rights abuses for the purposes of distributing them to the media. |
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| | Warblogging.com: Mr. Rumsfeld the War Criminal — Read in the White House |
| | Rumsfeld for his order — and for his other potential crimes, such as ordering or at least encouraging the abuse of prisoners of war — and so it may become necessary for the International Criminal Court in the Hague to charge Mr. | | | I call him a war criminal because in my own judgement he has violated the international laws and customs of war, in particular the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War of 1949. | | | The practice of hiding prisoners of war from the International Red Cross is "in violation of international law". |
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| | Japanese war crimes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The declaration alluded, in Article 10, to two kinds of war crime: one was the violation of international laws, such as the abuse of prisoners of war (POWs); the other was obstructing "democratic tendencies among the Japanese people", and civil liberties within Japan. | | | Nevertheless, the treatment of prisoners by the Japanese military in earlier wars, such as the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05), had been at least as humane as that of other militaries. | | | As the consensus of Japanese jurists is that Japanese forces did not technically commit violations of international law, many right wing elements in Japan have taken this to mean that war crimes trials were examples of "winners' justice" (that is, invalid and unjust). |
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| | NPR : Will Terrorism Rewrite the Laws of War? |
| | In addition to ratifying the Geneva Conventions, in 1950 the United States incorporated the rules into the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the laws that govern the nation's armed services, and into the Army's field manuals, which detail proper procedures for interrogating prisoners. | | | Amid the increasingly brutal realities of war in the 20th century, the additional Geneva Conventions outlawed the use of chemical weapons and guaranteed the humane treatment of soldiers at sea, of prisoners of war and of civilians during wartime. | | | Lincoln's orders also defined minimum standards for treating prisoners of war and explicitly outlawed all forms of cruelty -- "that is, the infliction of suffering for the sake of suffering or for revenge, nor of maiming or wounding except in fight, nor of torture to extort confessions," reads the code. |
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| | Memos Reveal War Crimes Warnings - Newsweek National News - MSNBC.com |
| | It is a rendering that Administration lawyers believed would protect U.S. interrogators or their superiors in Washington from being subjected to prosecutions under the War Crimes Act based on their treatment of the prisoners. | | | The issue first arises in a January 9, 2002, draft memorandum written by the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) concluding that "neither the War Crimes Act nor the Geneva Conventions" would apply to the detention conditions of Al Qaeda or Taliban prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. | | | In February 2002, it proclaimed that, while the United States would adhere to the Geneva Conventions in the conduct of the war in Afghanistan, captured Taliban and Qaeda fighters would not be given prisoner of war status under the conventions. |
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| | Gardelegen War Crime |
| | The remaining prisoners that reached Gardelegen were temporarily housed in the stables of the Remonteschool Garrison. | | | The prisoners were unloaded from the train and forced to march toward Gardelegen. | | | Nazi policy stated that the prisoners were to be killed to prevent any possibility of having them turn on their guards in the event of liberation. |
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| | Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War |
| | Prisoners of war who are paroled or who have given their promise in conformity with the laws and regulations so notified, are bound on their personal honour scrupulously to fulfil, both towards the Power on which they depend and towards the Power which has captured them, the engagements of their paroles or promises. | | | Prisoners of war may be partially or wholly released on parole or promise, in so far as is allowed by the laws of the Power on which they depend. | | | Officer prisoners of war of the same nationality shall be stationed in labour camps for prisoners of war, for the purpose of carrying out the camp administration duties for which the prisoners of war are responsible. |
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| | US POWs sue Japanese Firms for War Crime Reparations |
| | Thousands of former Japanese prisoners of war are in line for extra compensation after Tony Blair gave his strongest hint yet that the Government would agree to a new pay-out. | | | The Japanese held all prisoners of war in complete contempt, and the Canadians became convinced that they would all be executed sooner or later. | | | POWs launch case against Japanese companies A group of elderly Chinese men who allege they were used as slave labourers during World War II have launched a test case seeking compensation from two Japanese companies. |
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