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Originally posted by baltassoc
There are two kinds of prisoners: criminals and POWs. You're either one or the other. Pick one and act accordingly. Either you can be held until the end of the war (and no longer) under a specified set of conditions and monitored by the Red Cross, or you can go through the judicial process and be held for the time appropriate to the sentence following conviction.
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That is if the GC applies to the particular group of people you are talking about. I don't think the terms of the GC apply to terrorist organizations. The countries who signed onto the GC could have written it to include terrorist organizations waging war but did not.
I don't think the terms of the GC apply to how a country treats its own citizens during a war. I could be wrong on that, but if our soldiers desert or switch sides, are we bound by the GC in how we treat them if they are our citizens?
I thought the GC only applies to how you treat the citizens of other countris, not what you can do to your own citizens.
