minus-squarejohny@feddit.orgtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Under the Third Geneva Convention a foreign POW has more fundamental rights than a US citizen in the USAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·2 months agoThey used the term ‘nongovernmental combatant’ (aka terrorist), because a war can only be between states these combatants were not legally POW and thus had no right whatsoever. linkfedilink
They used the term ‘nongovernmental combatant’ (aka terrorist), because a war can only be between states these combatants were not legally POW and thus had no right whatsoever.