Geneva Convention Hypocrisy

Geneva Convention Hypocrisy
by Palestine MediaWatch (reposted by raf) Monday March 24, 2003 at 09:27 AM

PMWATCH - March 24, 2003 -- Palestine Media Watch has examined the appearance of the phrase "Geneva Conventions" in the archives of the New York Times up to March 23, 2003, and has discovered that usage of this phrase in the two days of March 23 and March 22 exceeds the number of times the phrase has appeared in the last eight months combined.

The phrase "Geneva Conventions" appeared a total of 11 times on just March 22 and 23 -- which is precisely the number of times it appeared between July 1 2002 and March 21, 2003.

For the search results, see: http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?query=%22Geneva+conventions%22&date_select=past365days&submit.x=6&submit.y=1

Why are the Geneva Conventions all of a sudden so relevant, when they have been ignored and sneered at as an idealistic nicety when human rights organizations invoked them to protest Israeli criminal actions against Palestinian civilians? Where were the Geneva Conventions during Jenin in 2002, in Qana in 1996, in Sabra and Shatila in 1982?

Please don't let the hypocrisy pass unnoticed and un-protested. Also worth pointing out is this little inconvenient, and therefore ignored, fact: US TVs have shown and are showing the faces of Iraqi prisoners of war, without blinking let alone thinking twice about it.

To share your thoughts, you can send a letter to the media via:
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/mediocrity/displayCall.asp?essayID=116

You can also call the media at: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/contact/media.html

For other actions: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/mediocrity/actionpage.asp

For an old PMWATCH action (May 7, 2002) calling on the media to take the Geneva Conventions seriously, please see: http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/cast/geneva.asp

And let's not forget Guantanamo
by yannindy Monday March 24, 2003 at 09:55 AM

yannindy@yahoo.fr

The afghan prisonners in camp XRay in Guantanamo are NOT considered as POW by the US. That means that they are NOT COVERED by the Geneva Convention.

Why not ask the Iraqi regime to build some nice "camps" Guantanamo style for the US prisonners? That would lead to the fury of the Bush administration.. wouldn't it?

As fot the UN, NATO and other international law, the Bush administration seems to think they are only valid for the "enemies" not for themselves.

Let's hope Bush, Cheney and Co will be able to see by themselves quite soon if the Geneva convention applies to the people tried by the International penal court in The Hague.

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