To: Catspaw
We've heard our command has established communications with enemy units encouraging them not to fight.
Would it be legit to use these EPW's to contact their former unit and tell them they're being treated well...AND that they haven't a snowball's chance of prevailing?
1,282 posted on
03/27/2003 5:58:23 AM PST by
Timeout
(...an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm--GWB inaugural address)
To: Timeout
Would it be legit to use these EPW's to contact their former unit and tell them they're being treated well...AND that they haven't a snowball's chance of prevailing? I wish it would fly, but that would be all-too-easily construed as being "degrading and humiliating".
1,286 posted on
03/27/2003 5:59:47 AM PST by
steveegg
(The French have removed 1 leg from the UN; it is now LN (League of Nations).)
To: Timeout
Well, sure, we could let our POWs contact their former units and tell them they're being treated well, but I suspect that the fedayeen or any other of Saddam's evil minions would just execute their families.
To: Timeout
"Would it be legit to use these EPW's to contact their former unit and tell them they're being treated well...AND that they haven't a snowball's chance of prevailing? "
Although a good idea, I don't think it's allowed by the convention - questions of being coerced etc...
To: Timeout; ONA-ASIS
Would it be legit to use these EPW's to contact their former unit and tell them they're being treated well...AND that they haven't a snowball's chance of prevailing?The quick answer is that GC forbids coercion, but I suspect there are acceptable methods to do that. I don't know the full answer, but I bet ONA- does...
Weigh in on this, ONA!!! --- PING
1,344 posted on
03/27/2003 6:34:03 AM PST by
AFPhys
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