As with the terrorists in Iraq, if you are an enemy combatant, and not in an official military uniform when captured, a battle-field execution is legally justified.
Call it the "Mata Hari" clause of military justice, and how spies can be executed.
As with the terrorists in Iraq, if you are an enemy combatant, and not in an official military uniform when captured, a battle-field execution is legally justified.
Call it the "Mata Hari" clause of military justice, and how spies can be executed.
this is why i said earlier in another post that they "cracked a nut with a sledgehammer". if it was as simple as finding terrorists and executing them, well - i still would prefer a trial, but i wouldnt be getting upset or "ranting" as someone accused me earlier. thats no big loss.
but the serbs, faced with seperatists and terrorists, they made an inhuman choice. they responded to a wrong with a far greater wrong, deliberately perpetrated against whole male populations.
the fact that there was terrorists among that population doesnt justify what the serbs did. its like if we went into iraq and afghanistan and started lining men up against the wall to shoot them - which we did not.
Wrong. A PW (Prison of War) are enemy personnel,in or out of uniform, who carry arms openly. Where does it say that battle-field executions are legally justified?