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Geneva Convention
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Geneva Convention

International agreement of 1864 regulating the treatment of those wounded in war, and later extended to cover the types of weapons allowed, the treatment of prisoners and the sick, and the protection of civilians in wartime. The rules were revised at conventions held in 1906, 1929, and 1949, and by the 1977 Additional Protocols.



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Dismissal of the Geneva Conventions by Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush and Alberto Gonzales certified that Abu Ghraib wasn't just the misdeed of a few ``bad apples.
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When Bush finally acknowledged that the CIA had been holding detainees in secret prisons around the world, without access to any due process and beyond the reach of the Red Cross, he was admitting that he had been violating the Geneva Conventions.
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