Uniforms, Communications, and the Geneva Convention Story aired: Monday, March 31, 2003
As the war unfolds in Iraq, international legal experts are keeping a close eye on events, trying to determine whether military tactics on both sides of the conflict are adhering to the Geneva Conventions.
The series of treaties were signed by 190 countries, including the United States and Iraq, in 1949.
Professor Douglass Cassell examines resent reports of Iraqi soldiers posing as American soldiers and reports of American forces destroying Iraqi communications towers, and determines the legality of these actions based on the Geneva Convention.
Guests:
Professor Douglass Cassell, director of the Center for International Human Rights at the Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.
