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US media violates Geneva Conventions on POWs too

US media, including the Chicago Tribune on its Sunday front page, violate the Geneva Convention on protecting POWs from public curiosity - but Bush et al only complain when it is pictures of American POWs.
Bush and Rumsfeld demand Iraqi adherence to the Geneva Convention picture ban that U.S. troops regularly violated in Afghanistan, and U.S. media is violating with Iraqi POWs.

The US and Iraqi violated rules are laid out in this BBC article: news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2878521.stm

PoW footage 'breaks convention'
The International Committee of the Red Cross says footage of captured American soldiers broadcast on Iraqi television violated the Geneva Convention.
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An ICRC spokeswoman said it was very clear that prisoners of war should not be subject to public exposure.

"Article 13 of the Third Geneva Convention says clearly that prisoners of war must at all times be protected... against insult and public curiosity," ICRC spokeswoman Nada Doumani told Reuters news agency.
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But the AP picture has run in many U.S. publications, including the front page of the Sunday Chicago Tribune, Early Edition.
Another copy of the picture, larger size is at:
us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20030321/capt.1048244284.topix_iraq_us_war_xits101.jpg

Perhaps adherence to the Geneva Conventions, like regime change, should begin at home.
 
 

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