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Can morality be found in POW camps?

Date Submitted: 11/07/2004 04:25:32
Category: / History / World History
Length: 2 pages (578 words)
When asking the question can morality be found in Prisoner of War (POW) camps the first thing I did was go to the Internet to find sources that might tell me what or if there are any rules pertaining to the treatment of prisoners in POW camps. From my research I found a website titled www.diggerhistory.com and this website provided me with information on the 3rd Geneva Convention rules on war and POW …
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…is an horrible thing and there is nothing good about it. Yet I feel the first statement in the 3rd Geneva Convention answers the question that morality can in fact be found in POW camps; "Clearly, prisoners of war lose their freedom. But they are not criminals." There are rules to war like there are rules to sports and that is to ensure a level of morality in an ugly and deadly hell called war.
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