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The Protection of prisoners of war

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

Before the existence of the Red Cross and the Geneva Conventions, any soldier fallen into enemy hands was entirely at his captor's mercy. Now the Third 1949 Geneva Convention relative to the treatment of prisoners of war—recognized by 133 States—clearly lays down how he must be treated during captivity.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1974

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