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Article: Geneva Conventions provide help for POWs - when they're followed.(Nation)(Crisis In Kosovo)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1999
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Delegates to the Hague Conference of 1899 proclaimed their intent to "humanize" warfare, prompting British Adm. John Fisher to scoff: "The humanizing of war! You might as well talk of the humanizing of hell!"
Despite Adm. Fisher's skepticism, reformers have spent more than a century attempting to humanize the bloody business of war.
The three U.S. soldiers captured Wednesday by Serbia are subject to treatment as prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions, a series of international agreements on the rules of war dating to 1864.
The Geneva Conventions became familiar to a generation who watched films about World War II prisoners of war, ...