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Under the Third Geneva Convention a foreign POW has more fundamental rights than a US citizen in the USA (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Under the Third Geneva Convention, prisoners of war (POW) must be:

Treated humanely with respect for their persons and their honour

Able to inform their next of kin and the International Committee of the Red Cross of their capture Allowed to communicate regularly with relatives and receive packages

Given adequate food, clothing, housing, and medical attention

Paid for work done and not forced to do work that is dangerous, unhealthy, or degrading

Released quickly after conflicts end

Not compelled to give any information except for name, age, rank, and service number

Just a thought. I'd rather be a POW than a homeless disabled person in the USA. I'd have more rights, respect, better support, and better care.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner_of_war

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Oh yea, absolutely. Joining a very small group of war criminal countries including (but not limited to); Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Malaysia, Venezuela, Mexico and of course Palestine+Israel (feat genocide).

Man that felt good, fuck all those places I listed for their war crimes/criminals.

You agree I'm sure.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They don't. All these people saying these excuses are doing so to dismiss their conscious because they are the true monsters but unable to openly recognize their own reflections. When tides turn, these are the people that sway in the wind of Nazi like horrors and atrocities. I doubt any of them realize it directly. When I was much younger I was just as naive of an idiot, and just as clueless about what disability is really like. There is no monster as scary or atrocious as ignorant indifference.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Oh look... a white supremacist desperately trying to "whatabout" more than a hundred years of US terrorism.