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Article 12 - Responsibility for the Treatment of Prisoners and Conditions for theirTransfer to Another Power

from Part II - General Protection of Prisoners of War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 August 2021

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Summary

Prisoners of war are in the hands of the enemy Power, but not of theindividuals or military units who have captured them. Irrespective of theindividual responsibilities that may exist, the Detaining Power is responsiblefor the treatment given them.

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Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention
Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
 , pp. 547 - 571
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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