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Politics : Foreign Policy Discussion Thread
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To: zonder who wrote (1797)1/6/2003 3:11:05 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (3) of 15987
 
zonder, please excuse my intrusion into your discussion but do you have a reference where the Geneva Convention clearly states that WHEN IN DOUBT (as we clearly are now):
1) A court of law should decide whether there is POW status or not

I only find that the Geneva Convention states that the issue is to be decided by a "competent tribunal" which is not necessarily a court of law. Would the issue not be decided by a panel of officers (tribunal) from the capturing country? I don't know, but I would think that this determination would be made before shipping prisoners to Guantanamo.
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