On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:09:04 +0100, Bas wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Lupe! > > You wrote: > > > Any soldier is to blame for war crimes as have been committed in ..factually wrong, and potentially a war crime; any soldier is responsible to _stop_ any and all war crimes, even if this takes war. Failure to repress (stop and mend etc) war crime is in itself a war crime. The fact that civilians (with some exceptions such as law enforcement, courts, etc) are entitled to their ignorance, does in no way entitle them to commit war crimes, not even subversion of the 4 Geneva Conventions from that same ignorance. ..ignorance is an allowed defense in court martials or Article 90 (of Protocol Additional 1) hearings for (some) civilians only. ..my own mandate in informing you here, comes from §108 in the Norwegian Military Penal Law, which incorporates the full 4 Geneva Conventions of Aug. 12'th 1949 and their Protocols Additional of June 7'th 1977, and the confirmation of war declaration of Sept. 12'th 2001 under Art. 5 of the NATO Treaty (which bound all NATO members fully to the full 4 Geneva Conventions and its Protocols Additional and their Annexes), specificly article 144 in the 4'th Geneva Convention: http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/WebART/380-600166?OpenDocument and http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/COM/380-600166?OpenDocument > > Irak by soldiers of various nations. The Geneva convention is more > > binding than any order given by an officer. ..factually and legally correct, for the specifics, I refer you all to http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/CONVPRES?OpenView > Please, please, do not start this discussion *here*. It is totally > offtopic for Debian lists. ..agreed, except we _could_ re-use the text of the Conventions to build a translation engine for a few hundred languages. ;o) ..I post this to avoid having anyone blame Debian curiosa for subversion of the Geneva Conventions, so if removed, replace my post with similar content to facilitate dissemination of the Conventions under art 144, I mean, having the M$ shills go "LINUX SUPPORTING WAR CRIME!!!", is _not_ what we want here. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
