A corpse is a corpse, of course, of course...

[figmo]

After our government accused Iraq of "violating the Geneva convention" for showing corpses of US soldiers, ABC just showed corpses of Iraqi soldiers.

I don't see the difference.

Comments

[ikkyu2.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was so much the corpses that were the Geneva violation, as the parading of live captives on TV for psychological purposes; and their public interrogations. In theory you're supposed to be allowed to say your name, rank, and serial number, and further than that remain silent, without reprisal; the identifying data is to be used to arrange POW swaps et cetera. This was when even countries that were at war had some kind of diplomatic relations, and harkens back to Marquis of Queensbury rules and the ruling feudal classes of Old Europe.

There's also a case to be made that ABC didn't sign the Geneva Convention, but I won't be the one to make it.

[klwalton.livejournal.com]

But access to the POWs is controlled by the military entity holding them, and they are part of the U.S. Government, which *did* sign the Geneva Convention.