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Originally Posted by transplant99
From the GC itself.
Which is fair to say...illegal combatants....no?
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The GC also states that it is up to an independent judge to decide who should get the status of "detainee" - not the ones who detain them. (Detainee being the accepted term for "illegal combatant").
An independent judge, Mary Robinson - The UN Human Rights Chief has already stated that those captured by the U.S. in Aghanistan and Iraq should fall under the Geneva Conventions. The Geneva Conventions are under UN jurisdiction - that should count for something.
It's also notable that according to the GC definition of an illegal combabtant, many independent military contractors would also be considered "illegal comabatants", yet there was a lot of outcry from the Bush administration that American mercenaries should not detained or harmed by enemy forces.