Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 118 of United States code describes a war crime as any grave breach of the Geneva convention signed August 12, 1949. Part 4, Section 1, Article 147 Defines a grave breach as:Grave breaches to which the preceding Article relates shall be those involving any of the following acts, if committed against persons or property protected by the present Convention: wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including biological experiments, wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile Power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial prescribed in the present Convention, taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly., ...and you cannot tell me The president had no knowledge of what was happing in the P.O.W. camps!
2006-07-27
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