EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: Pentagon to omit Geneva ban from new army manual: report |
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I've made the argument before that the abuses at Abu Graib and elsewhere, including the recently-brought-to-light slaughters, are a direct result of the attitude at the top and subsequent scapegoating by those at the top. (Scumbags. What ever happened to ""No man left behind??")
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Pentagon to omit Geneva ban from new army manual: report
AFP - Mon Jun 5, 8:49 AM ET
LOS ANGELES - New policies on prisoners being drawn up by the Pentagon will reportedly omit a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment."
...the step would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift by the US government away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.
...The State Department fiercely opposes the military's decision to exclude Geneva Convention protections and has been pushing for the Pentagon and White House to reconsider, the paper pointed out... |
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060605/ts_alt_afp/usmilitarytorture_060605124903;_ylt=AlNScLOxFZ5ATsD6zPksEpVsbEwB;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl |
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