Re: Ok to shoot unarmed/wounded prisoners?

From: Alan Horowitz (alanh_27_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: 28 Nov 2004 14:43:47 -0800

halcon7roho@yahoo.com (RH) wrote in message news:<524db79f.0411221923.7a65686b@posting.google.com>...
> are saying that the soldier did the right
> thing and that he shouldn't be taken to court. A news web page in my
> city (austin texas) had posted comments of people with the same
> sickening views.

 War has a law.... the Geneva Conventions.

   I haven't read the treaties myself, but an American TV commentator
noted that "playing dead" is against the Convention's rules.

If so, and even if an investigation would show [and I don't take that
as self-evident] that the Marine had no possible reason to believe the
fallen enemy was harboring a hidden weapon or booby-trap; the Marine's
action falls into the same category as shooting a spy because he did
not wear a uniform.

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