Recent content by Matthew

I think you're cranky. I was relating an interview with an International Law expert I heard on the CBC a month or so, specifically on the topic of the implications of handing over a prisoner to another force.  I am making no claims in this thread. I have some significant claims to make in...

Many countries claim they adhere to the Geneva Conventions, but NGO watching those countries report that they routinely torture their prisoners, among other human rights abuses.  'The reasonable man' would know that prisoners handed over to Afganistan forces would be handed over to the...

Assuming that in fact the Afganistan government has turned a 180 and stopped torturing prisoners, then there is still liability since it is common knowledge that most prisoners handed over to the Afganistan forces will in turn be turned over to US forces.  WIth Guantanamo Bay the Americans have...

Well, what this International Legal expert said was that International Law is case based. It does not matter whether there is a Geneva Convention saying that the soldier is not responsible when handing over a prisoner.  By precedence, the soldier is responsible for his/her actions.  If they hand...

Hello, I heard an International Law expert speaking on CBC recently regarding the issue of turning over prisoners to another country's military/police.  She brought up the Nurenburg trials, where some who claimed just to be "following orders" were not left off the hook for their war crimes. ...