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tameszu

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Sun Aug-24-03 03:26 AM
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3. They could be prosecuted for war crimes by the ICC

And the other poster is correct: American soldiers could also be prosecuted for war crimes, if the complainant could show that the U.S. military or American courts were unwilling to prosecute them...and if the ICC could get its hands on them...

Also, violating the Geneva Convention doesn't necessarily constitute war crimes, at least as defined by the ICC. The war crimes the ICC prosecutes are only the most serious and intentional violations of international human rights law. Smaller things, like displaying captive soldiers and so on would not be prosecuted by the ICC.

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