It's never acceptable to target civilians. It violates the Geneva Accords, it violates the international law of war and it violates all principles of morality.
I have been writing since I was a kid. I also traveled a good deal for my work and did extended stays in places like Geneva.
A kid in an abusive home has far fewer rights than any POW. There is no Geneva Convention for kids.
Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
The first and pivotal negotiations over global access to AIDS drugs began in Geneva in 1991. They lasted two years, but confidential minutes suggest they were doomed the first day.
However, the Department of Defense treats these detainees in accord with the Geneva Convention, even though that is not required because of the inhumane methods used by these killers.
Al Qaeda doesn't abide by the Geneva Conventions, so in my opinion, they should not be afforded the protections of them.
What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?
