What Was Theunited States False The Geneva Convention?

The Geneva Conventions are a series of treaties on the treatment of civilians, prisoners of war and soldiers who are otherwise rendered hors de combat or incapable of fighting. The first Geneva Convention was in 1864 that was when it first got started. After, there were revisions of the Convention in 1906, 1929, and 1949. The case I want to look at that violated the Geneva Convention is when theUnited States violated the Convention in 2002. On January 11, 2002, the United States announced that it was going to refuse to abide with the 1949 Geneva Convention. The United States explained the prisoners taken from Afghanistan and Pakistan were not prisoners of war, but they were “unlawful combatants.” The first prisoners arrived in the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on January 11, 2002. The prisoners were hooded and shackled during the flight to Cuba. And the United Stated defended these practices by saying they were for security measures. Not only were the prisoners shackled and hooded, they were wearing goggles that were blacked out, and they again said it was for “security reasons” to prevent him from using eyes. The prisoners were being housed in an outdoor 6 foot by 8 foot open air chain link cages, with concrete floors and wooden roofs, and a mat …show more content…
Article 4 defines persons who may be considered as “prisoners of war.” Article 17: No physical or mental torture to obtain information; Prisoners who decline to provide information may not be threatened, insulted or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment. As they bring the “unlawful combatant” to Guantanamo base, they made sure the combatant was unable to move freely and made sure he could not use his sight and at last they housed him outside in the open when they arrived at the