From: "Kristina Webb"
Date: Wed Oct 17, 2001 9:32am
Subject: ENEMY PRISONER OF WAR from the Army manual
Appears the link is dead...I did see it prior, however. Most likely this will be updated with those they belive are fundamentalists/extremists. kw
ENEMY PRISONER OF WAR
1-4. As defined in the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GPW), 12 August 1949, an EPW is & #8212;
A member of an enemy armed force or a member of a militia or a volunteer corps forming part of an enemy armed force.
A member of a militia or a volunteer corps (including an organized resistance movement) that (1) belongs to an enemy power, (2) operates in or outside its own territory (even if the territory is occupied), and (3) fulfills the following conditions:
The organization is commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates.
The organization has a fixed, distinctive sign that is recognizable at a distance.
The members are carrying arms openly.
The organization is conducting operations according to the laws and customs of war.
A member of an enemy armed force who professes allegiance to a government or an authority not recognized by the detaining power (the US).
A person who accompanies an enemy armed force without actually being a member (a civilian member of a military aircraft crew, a war correspondent, a supply contractor, a member of a labor unit, or a member of a service that is responsible for enemy welfare) if he has authorization and an identification (ID) card from the armed force.
A crew member (a master, a pilot, or an apprentice of a merchant marine or a member of a civil aircraft under the enemy's power) who does not benefit from more favorable treatment under other provisions of international law.
Inhabitants of an unoccupied territory who spontaneously take up arms to resist invading US armed forces (without having time to form themselves into a regular armed unit) if they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war. (*****)
(Note: The above is taken verbatim from the Army manual just put out in Septamber, 2001, on civilian Internment camps! Go to:
www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/3-19.40/toc.htm
Looks like the good NWO resistant American citizens and militias under martial law fall into most of the above categories in one way or another. What am I? A "war correspondent?" (Har har.)-Pam Schuffert, www.AmericanHolocaust.50megs.com
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I would like to Add from Army Field Manual No. FM 3-19.40,
continuing from where the above poster left off. Starting from
(*****) above, the manual continues:
1-5. The following persons are treated as EPWs:
A person who qualifies for EPW status under paragraph 1-4 (if the US is a party to the conflict) and falls into the hands of the US as a neutral or nonbelligerent power.
A person belonging to or having belonged to an armed force of a country occupied by the US (if the US considers it necessary by reason of such allegiance to intern him) even though he may have been originally liberated from EPW status by the US while hostilities were going on outside the occupied territory. Particular application is made to a person who has made an unsuccessful attempt to join an armed force that is engaged in combat or who has failed to comply with a summons for internment.
1-6. Captured enemy personnel are presumed to be EPWs immediately upon capture if the circumstances are unmistakable (armed, uniformed enemy). If questions arise as to whether captured personnel belong in the EPW category, they receive the same treatment as EPWs until their status is determined by a competent military tribunal according to AR 190-8.
CIVILIAN INTERNEE
1-7. A CI is a person who is interned during armed conflict or occupation if he is considered a security risk or if he needs protection because he committed an offense (insurgent, criminal) against the detaining power. A CI is protected according to the Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (GC), 12 August 1949.
RETAINED PERSON
1-8. An RP is an enemy who falls within one of the following categories:
A person who is a member of the medical service of an enemy armed force.
A medical person exclusively engaged in—
Searching, collecting, transporting, or treating wounded or sick personnel.
Preventing disease.
Administering a medical unit or establishment.
A chaplain attached to an enemy armed force.
A member of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) or another voluntary aid organization. The organization must be duly recognized and authorized by its government. The staff may be employed in the same duties as medical personnel if the organization is subject to military laws and regulations.
1-9. An RP is a special category for medical personnel and chaplains because of their special skills and training. They may be retained by the detaining power (see FM 27-10) to aid EPWs, preferably those of the armed force to which the RP belongs. Per the Geneva Conventions, RPs receive the same benefits and protection as EPWs. The following privileges and considerations are extended to RPs due to their professions:
Correspondence privileges that are over and above those afforded to EPWs.
Facilities to provide medical care, spiritual assistance, and welfare services to EPWs.
Transportation for periodic visits to EPW branch I/R facilities and hospitals outside the EPW I/R facility to carry out medical, spiritual, and welfare duties.
Work assignments that are restricted to medical and religious duties they are qualified to perform.
Quarters that are separate from EPW quarters when practicable.
NOTE: For a complete discussion on RPs, see AR 190-8.
OTHER DETAINEE
1-10. A person in the custody of US armed forces who has not been classified as an EPW (Article 4, GPW), an RP (Article 33, GPW), or a CI (Article 78, GC) is treated as an EPW until a legal status is ascertained by competent authority.
Seems like they have detailed plans for Everyone!!
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