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Will the GOP make War Crimes part of their platform...? [View all]
their presumptive nominee is running on a platform of waterboarding our enemies....it IS a war crime.
WATERBOARDING:
As a form of torture, waterboarding became illegal under the law of war with the adoption of the third Geneva Convention of
1929, which required that prisoners of war be treated humanely, and the third and fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949, which explicitly prohibited the torture and cruel
treatment of prisoners of war and civilians, respectively. On the basis of the 1929 convention the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE; 1946–48)
convicted 25 Japanese leaders of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity, specifically including torture by waterboarding (referred to by the IMTFE as
the “water treatment”).
1929, which required that prisoners of war be treated humanely, and the third and fourth Geneva Conventions of 1949, which explicitly prohibited the torture and cruel
treatment of prisoners of war and civilians, respectively. On the basis of the 1929 convention the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE; 1946–48)
convicted 25 Japanese leaders of responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity, specifically including torture by waterboarding (referred to by the IMTFE as
the “water treatment”).
https://www.britannica.com/topic/waterboarding
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