United States Volunteers in Nicaragua and the Death of Benjamin Linder: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, May 13, 1987U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - 175 pages |
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ABRAMS ambushed April 28 armed Article asked attack AUCOIN autopsy autopsy report Ben Linder Benjamin Linder Bishop BONKER brigades brigadistas Central America Chairman church close range Committee Communist contras cooperative CROCKETT Cuá dangerous death of Benjamin defend DORNAN El Cedro El Salvador Elliott Abrams Failure to observe FMLN GEJDENSON going Government of Nicaragua grenade human rights humanitarian imprisonment internationalists investigation Jose de Bocay kidnaped LAGOMARSINO Linder's death living in Nicaragua MACK Managua Matagalpa Miguel D'Escoto military murder Nicara Nicaraguan government observe this provision offense committed organizations Oscar penalty corresponding person punished with restriction question regime resistance restriction of liberty Reverend GUMBLETON revolutionary RISACHER Sandinista Sandinista government statement subcommittee Takaro targets terrorist Thank U.S. citizens U.S. Congress U.S. Embassy U.S. policies UNO/FDN members volunteers Washington weapons weeks West German Witness for Peace workers wounded
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Page 142 - Parties to the conflict shall ensure that burial or cremation of the dead, carried out individually as far as circumstances permit, is preceded by a careful examination, if possible by a medical examination, of the bodies, with a view to confirming death, establishing identity and enabling a report to be made.
Page 145 - No physical or mental torture, nor any other form of coercion, may be inflicted on prisoners of war to secure from them information of any kind whatever. Prisoners of war who refuse to answer may not be threatened, insulted, or exposed to unpleasant or disadvantageous treatment of any kind.
Page 141 - At all times, and particularly after an engagement, Parties to the conflict shall without delay take all possible measures to search for and collect the wounded and sick, to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment, to ensure their adequate care, and to search for the dead and prevent their being despoiled.
Page 144 - Women shall be treated with all the regard due to their sex and shall in all cases benefit by treatment as favourable as that granted to men. Prisoners of war shall retain the full civil capacity which they enjoyed at the time of their capture. The Detaining Power may not restrict the...
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Page 144 - Only those prisoners of war who, owing to wounds or sickness, would run greater risks by being evacuated than by remaining where they are, may be temporarily kept back in a danger zone. Prisoners of war shall not be unnecessarily exposed to danger while awaiting evacuation from a fighting zone.
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Page 142 - Parties to the conflict shall, without delay, take all possible measures to search for and collect the shipwrecked, wounded and sick, to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment, to ensure their adequate care, and to search for the dead and prevent their being despoiled.