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kpete

(71,997 posts) Sat Jun 22, 2019, 09:57 PM Jun 2019

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1949 Geneva Convention requires even prisoners of war to be furnished with soap

Prisoner of War Geneva Convention of 1949:

"Prisoners of war shall have for their use…conveniences which conform to the rules of hygiene…Apart from the baths and showers with which the camps shall be furnished prisoners of war shall be provided with sufficient water and soap."

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Children, including infants, are being held in a filthy border station. Their clothes are soiled with mucus, feces and breast milk. No soap. No toothbrushes. Not enough food. Even the guards are wearing masks.

https://nyti.ms/2Iw1fEH

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1949 Geneva Convention requires even prisoners of war to be furnished with soap (Original Post) kpete Jun 2019 OP

Oh yeah, because America respects the Geneva Conventions so much. Solly Mack Jun 2019 #1

Trump has likened the border situation to an invasion. HubertHeaver Jun 2019 #2

Alberto Gonzalez, * AG, called the Geneva Convention "quaint" . . . . . no_hypocrisy Jun 2019 #3

Bush destroyed the Geneva Convention malaise Jun 2019 #4

The Geneva Convention never imagined prisoners of Trump DFW Jun 2019 #5

Solly Mack

(90,773 posts)

1. Oh yeah, because America respects the Geneva Conventions so much.

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Sat Jun 22, 2019, 10:02 PM

Jun 2019

HubertHeaver

(2,522 posts)

2. Trump has likened the border situation to an invasion.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sat Jun 22, 2019, 11:32 PM

Jun 2019

If it is an invasion, the children are captured POWs entitled to humane treatment as defined by the Geneva Convention.

no_hypocrisy

(46,130 posts)

3. Alberto Gonzalez, * AG, called the Geneva Convention "quaint" . . . . .

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Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:52 AM

Jun 2019

malaise

(269,057 posts)

4. Bush destroyed the Geneva Convention

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Sun Jun 23, 2019, 06:54 AM

Jun 2019

Tell Nicole Wallace for me

DFW

(54,409 posts)

5. The Geneva Convention never imagined prisoners of Trump

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Jun 23, 2019, 07:41 AM

Jun 2019

Prisoners of war have a chance at better treatment, especially when neither Cheney nor ISIS is the captor.

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