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The missing conventions

Iran Shows Video of Britons as Dispute Heats Up

The dispute with Iran over Britain’s captured sailors escalated sharply on Wednesday when Britain froze all “bilateral business” with Iran, and the Iranians displayed some British prisoners on state television — an act condemned by the Foreign Office here as “completely unacceptable.”

What's missing from the above paragraph?

Do you remember the controversy over the American showing of Iraqi prisoners of war four years ago? In some circumstance displaying captured prisoners can be a violation of the Geneva Conventions. I haven't seen the video of the British sailors but shouldn't the possible violation of the Geneva Conventions be mentioned and not just the objection of the British Foreign Office? Or are the Geneva Conventions only

"...apply to individuals bent on destroying America. Individuals who blow up elementary schools, kidnap children, attack churches and mosques, kill invalids in wheelchairs, plan attacks on skyscrapers in New York, behead journalists, detonate car bombs with children to camouflage their crime, or board jetliners with explosive shoes"

as The Belmont Club puts it. See The Sundries Shack for more Geneva hypocrisy.

Blogdigger tags: Geneva Conventions, Iran, British Sailors, Media Bias.

Posted by SoccerDad at March 29, 2007 6:29 AM