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Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Writing on impact of African holocaust and genocide

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On 8/23/13 11:19 AM, Oluwatoyin Adepoju wrote:
"It is your opponent's duty to make sure you dont have food so you may surrender quickly and save everyone more deaths."
the geneva convention prohibits attacks on civilians
Here is what it says:
Part III and several chapters of Part IV (Articles 35-60) deal with the conduct of hostilities, i.e. questions which hitherto were regulated by the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and by customary international law. Their reaffirmation and development is important in view of the age of the Hague Conventions and of the new States which had no part in their elaboration. Article 43 and 44 give a new definition of armed forces and combatants. Among the most important Articles are those on the protection of the civilian population against the effects of hostilities. They contain a definition of military objectives and prohibitions of attack on civilian persons and objects. Further Articles (61-79) deal with the protection of civil defence organizations, relief actions and the treatment of persons in the power of a party to a conflict.

But i don't need the geneva convention to tell me what is right or wrong. none of us does.
ken

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