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Fast Facts
  1. The third Geneva Convention, held after World War II in 1949, set up laws concerning the treatment of prisoners of war.
  2. In 1949 the four Geneva Conventions for the protection of war victims were ratified by 125 nations.
  3. The Bush administration argues that the detainees at Guantanamo Bay should be designated as "enemy combatants" because they fought for no particular country; this exempts them from the rights of prisoners of war protected by the Geneva Conventions.
  4. In 2006, Slobodan Milosevic died while on trial for war crimes relating to charges of genocide in Yugoslavia, where he was President.



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War Crimes   

War crimes refer to crimes committed during times of war against military personnel or civilians that go against internationally accepted codes of behavior. Genocide, rape, and torture of prisoners of war are examples of war crimes.

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In 1949 the four Geneva Conventions for the protection of war victims were ratified by 125 nations. This led directly to the most famous tribunals for war crimes, the Nuremberg trials, in which officials of the defeated Nazi regime faced international justice. Adolf Hitler's assistant, Martin Bormann, who was directly…>> (read more)

 

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