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Subject: Re: Missing in Action
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.221730.15632@oneb.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 15 Mar 91 22:17:30 GMT
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In article <9103132214.879@mydog.UUCP> gcf@mydog.UUCP (Gordon Fitch) writes:

>Iraqi dead.  According to the Geneva Convention, the party in
>control of a given territory after combat is responsible for
>making its best effort to find, count, and identify the
>casualties of its adversary, including the dead.  The U.S.
>command has made it clear that it has no intention of doing so.

Can you provide specific evidence that the U.S. command has 'made it
clear', or in any way stated it has no intention of pursuing the
issue? (I don't get much tv time, so may have missed something.)
Please provide whatever documentation is available to you which 
supports this allegation.

>Many of the Iraqi dead were simply bulldozed into mass graves
>without any attempt to count them, much less identify them, and
>with no reports made or asked for.

It was my understanding that the military first took pictures or
whatever else was required for later identification and removal to
Iraq - when did this policy change, and who changed it?



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