eli5: what happens if the Geneva convention is broken? my friend tried to explain to me but I still can’t understand
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Hey!!
Let’s just discuss what 4 Geneva conventions are about.
So, Geneva convention provides protection to prisoners of war and focuses on providing humane treatment to the soldiers in case they are captured by the belligerents of the enemy.
Another basic principle that was established in Geneva convention was the treatment of wounded/sick soldiers and civilians. The states are bound to provide treatment to sick and wounded soldiers and civilians and enemy forces will not attack mobile and established hospitals and care units. The belligerents are not allowed to attack the aircraft carrying sick and wounded.
The protection to civilians is provided that they cannot be attacked in any case.
So, if the Geneva convention is broken we might face another situation of genocide. The brutalities was the major reason to inculcate the protection of civilians and prisoners of war clauses in the convention.
These conventions if broken 1) will stop providing protection to people against torture and forced confessions 2) will lead to inhumane concentration camps (just like world war 2) 3) torture and killing of prisoners of war 4) attacking of medical units
So, overall this could cause the involvement of civilians in the war by cancelling out neutrality that could lead to global or world war.
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