I really don't understand how the guidelines laid down by the Geneva Convention are expected to be adhered to by warring countries. People war against each other because they don't agree and are, at that point, willing to do anything to get their way, even if it means murdering POWs. Do you suppose that a country on its last leg with a supply of Browning 50 caliber machine guns is going to forfeit the war because the Geneva Convention said so? It's international dynamics, and conditions change all the time.
Sorry about that. I got very much off-topic there. You must excuse my ranting, I suspect that I am rather ignorant.
[ June 15, 2002: Message edited by: The Silver-shod Muse ]
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