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To: Neeka who wrote (88608)	4/2/2003 12:37:50 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) of 281500

Could you give me some suggestions to use for a Google search please? If this was an honest inquiry (which it isn't), you would have obviously done a Google search for Gauntanamo and Geneva. Here is the first hit: Geneva Conventions Apply to Guantanamo Detainees hrw.org Some more detail on the 15 articles of the Geneva Convention that are currently being violated in Guantanamo: georgemonbiot.com <<< ... The US government claims that these men are not subject to the Geneva Conventions, as they are not "prisoners of war", but "unlawful combatants". The same claim could be made, with rather more justice, by the Iraqis holding the US soldiers who illegally invaded their country. But this re-definition is itself a breach of article 4 of the third convention, under which people detained as suspected members of a militia (the Taliban) or a volunteer corps (Al Qaeda) must be regarded as prisoners of war. Even if there is doubt about how such people should be classified, article 5 insists that they "shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal." But when, earlier this month, lawyers representing sixteen of them demanded a court hearing, the US Court of Appeals ruled that as Guantanamo Bay is not sovereign US territory, the men have no constitutional rights. Many of these prisoners appear to have been working in Afghanistan as teachers, engineers or aid workers. If the US government either tried or released them, its embarrassing lack of evidence would be brought to light ... >>> Tom

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