• Ukrainian state-backed project, "I Want to Live", says it plans to start exchanging Russian prisoners of war (POWs) for anti-war political prisoners jailed in Russia, reports Federico Fuentes . (greenleft.org.au)
  • The government of Azerbaijan and its armed forces, to this day, refuse to release all Armenian Prisoners of War (POWs) and civilians in their custody, in direct violation of the tripartite peace agreement of November 10, 2020, explicitly stipulating their release. (change.org)
  • Russia said a battalion of Ukrainian prisoners of war, or POWs, would soon be sent to the front lines to fight against their own country, state media reported. (businessinsider.com)
  • That's a higher number of detainees than there were U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) in the Gulf War, Vietnam War, Korean War, and the Pacific Front of World War II combined. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Geneva (ICRC) - A team from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has registered hundreds of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) this week from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol. (icrc.org)
  • This compares with around 500 POWs in the First World War. (geni.com)
  • Educating young people about the sacrifices made by American prisoners of war (POWs) is a shared goal of the Friends of Andersonville, the American Ex-Prisoners of War, the Korean War Ex-POW Association, Nam-POW, and the National Parks Service. (nps.gov)
  • Metal cages are being set up in Mariupol as Ukraine prepares for future prisoners of war (POWs) trials amid Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. (katc.com)
  • Some people are responding to this prisoner exchange as if it were a hostage negotiation with terrorists , but I don't think the same rules should apply to POWs and hostages. (mwilliams.info)
  • Background: Prisoners of war (POWs) are usually at risk of suicide due to problems such as torture, social and emotional deprivation, etc. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • The present study aimed to investigate suicide cases among Iranian prisoners of war (POWs) over ten years of their presence in the camps in Iraq (1980-1990). (suicideinfo.ca)
  • Maksym Butkevytch, a well-known Ukrainian journalist, human rights defender and pacifist, is being held as a prisoner of war, after the capture of his Ukrainian army platoon by Russian occupying forces in June. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Ukrainian prisoners of war will soon be fighting against their own country, Russian state media says. (businessinsider.com)
  • Ukrainian forces and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine have exchanged 200 prisoners in a move aimed at ending their five-year war. (theage.com.au)
  • Yulia embraces her husband Olexander Korinkov, a Ukrainian soldier and prisoner of war released after a prisoner exchange, at Boryspil airport outside Kiev, Ukraine. (theage.com.au)
  • A Ukrainian war prisoner leaves a bus after being released near Odradivka, eastern Ukraine. (theage.com.au)
  • The last major prisoner swap between separatist rebels and Ukrainian forces took place in December 2017, with 233 rebels exchanged for 73 Ukrainians. (theage.com.au)
  • Ukrainian war prisoners escorted by armed Russia-backed separatist soldiers walk to buses to be exchanged at a checkpoint near Horlivka, eastern Ukraine. (theage.com.au)
  • Hopes for ending the fighting have risen since the election of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been more amenable to negotiations with Russia on ending the war. (theage.com.au)
  • Ukraine condemns the illegal treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war by the Russian Federation, in particular use of them for its own political purposes. (kyivpost.com)
  • The ministry added that it demands humane treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Russian side and any illegal act or inaction on the part of the detaining power is prohibited. (kyivpost.com)
  • Two further trials in absentia of Russian soldiers for violating the laws and customs of war are in progress in the northern Ukrainian region of Chernihiv. (iwpr.net)
  • After being taken prisoner in March, Krasnoiartsev gave an interview to Ukrainian blogger Volodymyr Zolkin in which he related that he had also flown a SU-34 fighter bomber on some 200 sorties in Syria since 2015. (iwpr.net)
  • The Ukrainian soldiers were taken prisoner while defending their country from militants of whom a large number are Russian nationals and all of whom are heavily armed by Moscow. (khpg.org)
  • Men released as part of prisoner swap accused of attacks on civilians and residential buildings. (iwpr.net)
  • Not only civilians of the occupied territories, but also prisoners of war were subjected to the concentration camp. (usf.edu)
  • Nine (82%) of deceased were among registered prisoners of war, and three (%27.3) were civilians. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • A memorandum to all officers of the State Police, signed by Mueller, Chief of the Gestapo, dated 9 November 1941, discusses the "Transportation of Russian Prisoners of War, Destined for Execution, into the Concentration Camps. (usf.edu)
  • Additional evidence of the confinement of Russian prisoners of war in concentration camps is found in an official report of the investigation of the Flossenburg concentration camp by Headquarters Third United States Army, Judge Advocate Section War Crimes Branch, dated 21 June 1945 (2509-PS). (usf.edu)
  • Soviet prisoners of war found their allies in the concentration camps. (usf.edu)
  • Escaped prisoners of war were sent to concentration camps, which were specially set up as extermination centers. (usf.edu)
  • For the sake of secrecy, the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces has been requested to inform the prisoner of war camps to turn the captured prisoners over to the local State Police Office and not to send them directly to Mauthausen. (usf.edu)
  • In a paper consisting of five pages American prisoner of war camps and the treatment of these prisoners during the Second World Wa. (echeat.com)
  • It does however help to explore what happened in those camps in Japan during World War II. (echeat.com)
  • Since then, outbreaks of nutritional neuropathy have occurred in World War II prisoner-of-war camps, Jamaican sugar-cane plantations, and Cuba following the collapse of Soviet food support in the 1990s. (medscape.com)
  • Barbara Czarnecka (University of Bialystok), The Methods of Torture of Female Prisoners of Nazi Concentration Camps in the Light of Personal Testimonies and Other Documents. (lu.se)
  • All of this corresponded to the stunt announced earlier on social networks and was intended to imitate an event in Moscow in July 1944 when thousands of German prisoners of war were marched through the streets, unwashed and many in only their underwear. (khpg.org)
  • A communication from the Secret State Police Office, Cologne, dated 4 March 1944, transmitted the following orders of the OKW -- for which Keitel is responsible -- concerning escaped prisoners of war: "1. (usf.edu)
  • Early in 1944 the U.S. Army's Special Projects Division of the Office of the Provost Marshal General was established in order to take on the enormous task of re-educating 360,000 German prisoners of war. (oldmagazinearticles.com)
  • 1944). Malaria Control in War Areas, 1943-44. (cdc.gov)
  • You can search and download ( £ ) these selected prisoners of war records 1715-1945 from Findmypast.co.uk. (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
  • The Italians were glad to be safely out of the war, and after their repatriation in 1945, many returned to build new lives in America. (wvencyclopedia.org)
  • When the war was heading toward its end in 1945, he was captured by the Soviet army and disappeared in the Soviet prisons. (lu.se)
  • Proven allegations included that Roberts-Smith, the son of a judge, used a machine gun to shoot a prisoner with a prosthetic leg in the back at a Taliban compound codenamed Whiskey 108 in Uruzgan province in 2009. (military.com)
  • WASHINGTON: The long-held belief that the US does not negotiate with terrorists, mostly romanticized in movies, was quietly set aside when the Obama administration released five Taliban terrorists on Saturday in exchange for an American prisoner of war captured by their associates in Afghanistan nearly five years ago. (indiatimes.com)
  • Before signing the deal, the political agent, the controlling officer of Bajaur Agency ordered release of all the prisoners who were arrested years ago for having connection with al-Qaeda and Taliban. (opednews.com)
  • The Taliban jubiliantly received their colleagues with heavy firing as they declared that they have won the war. (opednews.com)
  • In light of the recent America-Taliban prisoner exchange it can be helpful to consider prisoners of war throughout history . (mwilliams.info)
  • Sergeant Bergdahl was freed on Saturday in a prisoner swap with the Taliban. (mwilliams.info)
  • The ministry demanded that the Russian side strictly observe the provisions of international humanitarian law, in particular the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, in relation to the prisoners of war of servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. (kyivpost.com)
  • The statement also says that the relevant persons are servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, to whom, in accordance with the provisions of 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Protection of Victims of War and 1977 Additional Protocol I, the legal status of combatants applies. (kyivpost.com)
  • The ministry also noted that Ukraine observes the humane treatment of prisoners of war and provides them with all the rights and guarantees provided for in international law. (kyivpost.com)
  • At the time of Kulikov's trial, Shchotkin was no longer in Ukraine as he had been freed as part of a prisoner exchange. (iwpr.net)
  • He is charged with part one of Article 438 of the criminal code of Ukraine on the violation of laws and customs of war, which provides for a prison term of between eight to 12 years. (iwpr.net)
  • Krasnoiartsev is charged with part two of Article 438 of the criminal code of Ukraine on the violation of the laws and customs of war, combined with intentional murder. (iwpr.net)
  • The Tribunal for Putin (T4P) global initiative was set up in response to the all-out war launched by Russia against Ukraine in February 2022. (khpg.org)
  • Finally, and most importantly, prisoners of war may not be punished for the acts they committed during the fighting unless the opposing side would have punished its own soldiers for those acts as well. (sourcewatch.org)
  • Featherston prisoner of war camp was a camp for captured Japanese soldiers during World War II). (geni.com)
  • Because of the kind treatment she received as a prisoner from American soldiers at Myitkyina and Ledo, she feels that they are more emotional than Japanese soldiers. (wikisource.org)
  • It is the war that is dirty, and those using proxies to wage it, not soldiers serving their country. (khpg.org)
  • This series has records for 4,714 U.S. military officers and soldiers who were prisoners of war during the Korean War and therefore considered casualties. (archives.gov)
  • This file contains records of U.S. military officers and soldiers who died as a result of either a hostile or non-hostile occurrence or who were missing in action or prisoners of war in the Korean War. (archives.gov)
  • This series contains information about U.S. Army officers and soldiers who were casualties in the Korean War during the period of 2/13/1950 through 12/31/1953. (archives.gov)
  • Results: During eight years of the Iraq-Iran war, about 40000 Iranian soldiers captured by Iraqi soldiers. (suicideinfo.ca)
  • Negotiations for the prisoner swap have reportedly been going on for several months now, complicated mainly by US laws that restrict transfer of detainees from Guantanamo and the need to keep Congress in the loop. (indiatimes.com)
  • The "visiting" team was made up of Germans, Austrians and Italians who were inmates at a prisoner of war camp in Hatfield Heath. (mirror.co.uk)
  • Theodore J. Hull, " Electronic Records of Korean and Vietnam War Casualties ," Prologue (Spring 2000). (archives.gov)
  • Recent news reports have confirmed the extra judicial torture and subsequent murder of 19 of more than 250 illegally held Armenian prisoners of war and civilian non-combatants by the government of Azerbaijan within its state-run prisons and rendition sites. (change.org)
  • Military Police Enemy Prisoners of War, Retained Personnel, Civilian Internees and Other Detainees. (sourcewatch.org)
  • After Guam was captured by the Japanese 10 December 1941, the Americans who remained behind were taken prisoner-477 military personnel (including five female nurses, one civilian woman and her newborn daughter) and 100 civilian men, including businessmen and the American Catholic priests, as well as the Spanish Catholic Bishop, Miguel Olano . (guampedia.com)
  • Trained as a lawyer, Kunzig remained in Germany and worked as a prosecutor for the Civilian War Crimes courts of the U.S. Government. (oldmagazinearticles.com)
  • Chinese archaeologists have discovered an underground 'horror bunker' used by Japanese scientists to conduct brutal experiments on humans before and during World War II, the South China Morning Post reported. (yahoo.com)
  • Keefer, Louis E. The West Virginia World War II Home Front: POW: The Italian Prisoners at Camp Dawson. (wvencyclopedia.org)
  • POW takes place in the midst of World War II. (gamesfirst.com)
  • base on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, officially bringing the United States into World War II. (echeat.com)
  • If one had to point at a single cause of World War II and. (echeat.com)
  • This paper examines the pre World War II appeasement policies of British prime minister Neville Chamberlain in tewnty seven pages. (echeat.com)
  • this is the charismatic leader theory (A summary of the causes of World War II). (echeat.com)
  • World War II prisoner of war camp, Williamston, N.C. (ecu.edu)
  • View of barracks and water tower at the World War II prisoner of war camp in Williamston, N.C. Photograph possibly taken by Eugene Rice. (ecu.edu)
  • Yesterday a coalition of civil rights attorneys, journalism professors, and clergy members brought a petition beforea federal judge in Los Angeles alleging that the United States is holding the Guantanamo prisoners illegally. (democracynow.org)
  • Australia's most decorated living war veteran, Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith, committed a slew of war crimes while in Afghanistan including the unlawful killings of unarmed prisoners, a judge ruled on Thursday, June 1, 2023. (military.com)
  • SYDNEY - Australia's most decorated living war veteran unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan, a judge ruled Thursday in dismissing the claims by Victoria Cross recipient Ben Roberts-Smith that he was defamed by media. (military.com)
  • Besanko found Roberts-Smith, who was also awarded the Medal of Gallantry for his Afghanistan War service, "broke the moral and legal rules of military engagement" and disgraced Australia through his conduct. (military.com)
  • Roberts-Smith is one of several Australian military personnel under investigation from Australian Federal Police for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. (military.com)
  • The photos are of Afghanistan throughout the war years of 1993-2012. (booklyn.org)
  • But a federal judge said yesterday that he has "gravedoubts" whether he has jurisdiction over more than 100 prisoners captured in Afghanistan and detained by the militaryin Cuba. (democracynow.org)
  • Azeri authorities continue to torture, abuse, and murder Armenians in their custody with flagrant disregard for all international norms, as well as for international and interstate laws and conventions governing the status of wartime captives and prisoners of war. (change.org)
  • Prisoners of War follows the former captives and their families as they try to reconnect with each other. (apple.com)
  • Although Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma's 14th Army had expected 25,000 prisoners of war, they were greeted by more than 75,000 (66,000 Filipinos and 11,796 Americans) starving and malaria-stricken captives at Bataan. (worldwar2database.com)
  • Check out this blog post by conscientious objector Visa Savolainen, who was under house detention on Prisoners for Peace day 2015. (wri-irg.org)
  • The term Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) is currently being used in place of the term Prisoner of War (POW). (sourcewatch.org)
  • A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, PsW, enemy prisoner of war (EPW) or 'missing-captured') is a person, whether combatant or non-combatant, who is held in custody by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. (geni.com)
  • This status, among other things, entitles such persons to be treated as prisoners of war if captured by the enemy power, the ministry said. (kyivpost.com)
  • 1. Established in 1863, the ICRC operates worldwide, helping people affected by conflict and armed violence and promoting the laws that protect victims of war. (icrc.org)
  • Within the framework of an international armed conflict caused by the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, our state adheres to the laws and customs of war, set forth, in particular, in 1949 Geneva Conventions for the Protection of Victims of War and 1977 Additional Protocols," the statement read. (kyivpost.com)
  • In seven pages this paper examines why Japan became embroiled in the Second World War conflict and its failed effort. (echeat.com)
  • Prisoners of War" is the series finale of the American television drama series Homeland. (wikipedia.org)
  • Starting in 2015 with US President Obama's sanctions against Venezuela and ratcheted up by subsequent US presidents, the US has intensified its hybrid war against the socialist government of that South American country. (dissidentvoice.org)
  • The Victory From Within (VFW) Curriculum is a companion middle/high school curriculum for the traveling exhibit "Victory From Within: The American Prisoner of War Experience. (nps.gov)
  • The VFW Curriculum is designed to provide a meaningful and powerful learning experience for young people across the U.S. to understand and appreciate the sacrifices made by American prisoners of war. (nps.gov)
  • Only 1 in 5 American youth know that the U.S. first adopted rules limiting how wars should be conducted during the American Civil War. (nps.gov)
  • Robert O'Brien , a Navy man assigned to the USS Penguin on Guam, left an account of his experience as an American prisoner of war in Japan. (guampedia.com)
  • he was an American prisoner of war captured on the battlefield. (mwilliams.info)
  • Every captured escaped prisoner of war who is an officer or a non-working non-commissioned officer, except British and American prisoners of war, is to be turned over to the Chief of the Security Police and of the Security Service under the classification 'Step III' regardless of whether the escape occurred during a transport, whether it was a mass escape or an individual one. (usf.edu)
  • During their stay they became well-known to the many Italian-American families in northern West Virginia, who visited the prisoners on Sundays at Camp Dawson for picnics and entertainment. (wvencyclopedia.org)
  • Japanese guards supervise American and Filipino prisoners of war sorting through captured equipment confiscated by the Japanese at Mariveles Airfield. (worldwar2database.com)
  • Still images were released by the Mariupol City Council showing the cages being constructed in Mariupol's Philharmonic Haul and are expected to be used as holding cells for prisoners of war held by Russian-backed authorities there, CNN reported. (katc.com)
  • Some Unit 731 researchers were arrested by Soviet forces and tried at the December 1949 Khabarovsk war crime trials, while those captured by the United States were granted immunity in exchange for their research findings. (yahoo.com)
  • Such treatment of prisoners is in flagrant violation of the 1949 Geneva Convention on treatment of prisoners of war. (khpg.org)
  • The first two paragraphs of Mueller's order provide: "The State Police Directorates will accept the captured escaped officer prisoners of war from the prisoner of war camp commandants and will transport them to the Concentration Camp Mauthausen following the procedure previously used, unless the circumstances render a special transport imperative. (usf.edu)
  • A project for New Zealanders who were held as prisoners of war overseas during any field of war and those who were held as prisoners of war in New Zealand (eg. (geni.com)
  • There were around 345 men who were captured and held as Prisoners of War when the Texian Army surrendered on March 20, 1836. (wikitree.com)
  • 38 IRA prisoners hijack a lorry and break out of the Maze, a maximum security prison in Northern Ireland. (rte.ie)
  • It's true, as Greenberg notes, that those offshore military commission trials of leftover Gitmo prisoners are finally proceeding in their forever fashion and perhaps someday that prison will indeed be no more. (warisacrime.org)
  • The question of whether those forever wars and the forever prison that went with them will ever be truly ended still remains up for grabs, but let TomDispatch regular Karen Greenberg explain so many years (and articles) later. (warisacrime.org)
  • This is a future hangar, where prison wagons with Azov prisoners of war will presumably come by. (katc.com)
  • The outlet had said in late October that Russian authorities were planning to send the group - described as a battalion including about 70 prisoners from various penal colonies - to the front lines and that they were conducting relevant training in preparation. (businessinsider.com)
  • Thepetition requests that U.S. authorities produce the prisoners in a U.S. court, explain the reasons for theirdetention and accord them the rights of Prisoners of War. (democracynow.org)
  • This report states: "In 1941 an additional stockade was added at the Flossenburg Camp, to hold 2,000 Russian prisoners. (usf.edu)
  • 2. Since the transfer of the prisoners of war to the Security Police and Security Service may not become officially known to the outside under any circumstances other prisoners of war may by no means be informed of the capture. (usf.edu)
  • Prisoners who refuse to answer may not be threatened or mistreated. (sourcewatch.org)
  • Tank commander Leonid Shchotkin and pilot Oleksandr Krasnoiarts were both freed in prisoner exchanges earlier this year and will stand trial in absentia. (iwpr.net)
  • After Westphalia and the Geneva Convention, prisoner exchanges became more common. (mwilliams.info)
  • These include the records of persons who were missing in action or prisoners of war in either the Korean War or the Vietnam War. (archives.gov)
  • Distributing food was also almost impossible as many were fed nothing, and the Allied prisoners were already hungry from lack of food during the battle. (worldwar2database.com)
  • Places of Pride, the National Register of War Memorials, is a new initiative designed to record the locations and photographs of every publicly accessible memorial across Australia. (awm.gov.au)
  • During the Second World War New Zealanders in large numbers became prisoners of war, or went 'into the bag' as they popularly called it. (geni.com)
  • In four pages this paper examines the myths associated with the Second World War in an analysis of Michael C.C. Adams' The Best Wa. (echeat.com)
  • A steady erosion of the post-Second World War institutional framework and democratic institutions as well as growing anti-Semitism and Islamophobia have become commonplace and part of the daily political rhetoric. (lu.se)
  • The Second World War is heading toward its end. (lu.se)
  • This reference report provides an overview of the electronic data records in the custody of the National Archives that relate to U.S. military casualties, missing in action, and prisoners of war from the Korean War era. (archives.gov)
  • This series contains information about 4,447 former prisoners of war from the Korean War. (archives.gov)
  • Surviving prisoners of war were exchanged at "Big Switch-Little Switch" towards the end of the Korean War. (archives.gov)
  • It is the successor to the series "Records of Military Personnel Who Died as a Result of Hostilities During the Korean War. (archives.gov)
  • This series contains selected descriptive data about U.S. military personnel who died by hostile means (i.e. battle deaths) as a result of combat duty in the Korean War. (archives.gov)
  • Federal Court Justice Anthony Besanko ruled that the articles published in 2018 were substantially true about a number of war crimes committed by Roberts-Smith, a former Special Air Service Regiment corporal who now is a media company executive. (military.com)
  • They say the site could provide new evidence about war crimes committed by the notorious Unit 731. (yahoo.com)
  • For the most up to date Prisoners for Peace list go to wri-irg.org/inprison , our permanent list of those in jail. (wri-irg.org)
  • Prisoner of War, from Codemasters, broke my heart when it missed its original June release date. (gamesfirst.com)
  • In five pages this paper discusses how propaganda was used by England during World War I. Ten sources are cited in the bibliograp. (echeat.com)
  • He then rubbed military insignia and memorial texts from plaques on the grounds of the Australian War Memorial Museum and Police Memorial (in Canberra) onto the photographs and onto the backs of the photographs. (booklyn.org)
  • The Malaria Control in War Areas program, as established in March, 1942, is a joint undertaking by the U. S. Public Health Service and State Health Departments designed to reduce the hazard of malaria transmission in extra-cantonment zones of military areas and around essential war industries. (cdc.gov)
  • Had such war crime allegations been made in a criminal court, they would have had to be proven to a higher standard of beyond reasonable doubt. (military.com)