Geneva Protocol

The captured Yazidi women are sold in the markets. Their prices are decided according to their ages. The youngest and the prettiest fetch the high price. There is also bargaining on the price of the female. The female is stripped down and the prospecting buyer lowers the price by pointing out the ‘defects’ in the body. • This table shows the pathetic condition of humans captured by ISIS, how they were auctioned for slave purposes . One of the horrifying things about the slaves market is that…

During WWI poisonous gas was used to break through the front lines, this caused people to die, and live the rest of their lives with health problems like blindness, lung problems, mental issues, or heart problems. During WWII Adolf Hitler set jews in gas chambers. Gas chambers were described as rooms that were airtight in which tons of jews were forced into to be murdered. These chambers then released tons of toxins thus suffocating the jews leaving them to die due to the poisonous gas in the…

Japan’s famous medical Unit 731 performed different types of experiments, many that violated important protocols. Knowledge of their grotesque experiments was kept from the American public, while at the same time the government made unjustful deals to gather knowledge about biological weapons. The government’s main mission was to get this important information while keeping it a secret from other countries. Therefore, while Unit 731 was well known for its atrocities, the United States officials…

During World War I, The United States developed the Chemical Warfare Service, and briefly conducted research on a lethal, natural, plant protein called ricin, but after the signing of the Geneva Protocol, which prohibited "asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices" and "bacteriological methods of warfare," all research on chemical weapons were officially terminated. However, as The United States’…

The First of its Kind Clouds of something that appeared to be smoke reached the line of soldiers waiting to fight. Immediately, the soldiers began to cough, gag and choke. Their eyes started stinging and watering, and they fell backwards into the trenches. The soldiers tried to duck and avoid the smoke in their dugouts, but it soon followed. Those who did not fall ran trying to abandon the clouds of smoke, but this was no regular smoke (Kennedy 53). It was chlorine gas that German forces used to…

The specter of nuclear, biological, chemical (NBC) attack or accident has loomed over our society for generations. Of the family of chemical agents, is the class of vesicants – also known as Blister Agents. Though there are different types of blister agents, their mechanism of action against their victims are the same. A wide spectrum of protective equipment and detection devices are commercially available for first responders in contending with a blister agent incident. Weaponized blister agent…

ceased and was used in multiple wars that were a lot smaller than World War 1. These attacks seemed helpful but as they were being conducted, the public’s opinion on using these weapons started to become unpopular, which led to the Geneva Protocol (Hacken, 2009). The protocol states "the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of all analogous liquids, materials or devices, has been justly condemned by the general opinion of the civilised world.” and multiple countries signed…

Global Politics in a Changing World. 4th ed. USA: Wadsworth, 2009. Print.). • ”. Global Commission on International Migration (2005), “Migration in an Interconnected World: New Directions for Action,” Geneva:…

In the “Basic Rules of the Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols” by the International Committee of the Red Cross, it is written that “everyone shall be entitled to benefit from fundamental judicial guarantees. No one shall be held responsible for an act he has not committed. No one shall be…

Relating John Wade and Historical Vietnam in Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods Looking at the themes in the Vietnam war through Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods show the atrocities committed by American troops through a new light, almost more sympathetic, but with a very harsh connotation. The usage of evidence chapters in the novel pushes the story forward by using real world history combined with the interviews with “people” who knew John Wade and were connected to him. Looking at…