USA använde Blackwater för att kunna bryta mot Genèvekonventionerna

USA använde Blackwater för att kunna bryta mot Genèvekonventionerna i sina invasionskrig

Genèvekonventionerna, internationella överenskommelser som reglerar väpnade konflikter, såväl internationella som interna/inbördeskrig.

• Första Genèvekonventionen (1864): Hanterar sårade och sjuka i landkrig.
• Andra Genèvekonventionen (1899): Hanterar sårade, sjuka och skeppsbrutna i sjökrig.
• Tredje Genèvekonventionen (1929): Hanterar krigsfångar.
• Fjärde Genèvekonventionen (1949): Hanterar civilbefolkningen.

Tredje Genèvekonventionen

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Tredje Genèvekonventionen omfattar bl.a. följande regler för krigsfångar:
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1. De ska alltid behandlas humant, de får inte misshandlas kroppsligen eller psykiskt.
2. De är enbart skyldiga att uppge namn, grad, födelsedatum och registreringsnummer.
3. Krigsfångeläger ska vara utmärkt med "POW", "Prisoner of War" eller "PG" (Prisonners de Guerre)
4. Anhöriga ska underrättas inom en vecka från att soldaten tagits tillfånga.
5. De har rätt till brevkontakt och får ta emot paket. Brev och paket kan förmedlas av Röda Korset som en neutral part.
6. Röda Korset har rätt att besöka alla krigsfångar för att se till att tredje Genèvekonventionen följs.
7. De ska erbjudas att resa hem efter konfliktens upphörande.

Fjärde Genèvekonventionen
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Fjärde Genèvekonventionen handlar om civilbefolkningens skydd vid väpnade konflikter. Civilbefolkning och civil egendom ska alltid respekteras och skyddas och de stridande får endast rikta sina operationer mot militära mål.

Våldshandlingar och vedergällningar mot civila är förbjudet och civila ska få mat och sjukvård. 

Civila skyddas så länge de inte direkt deltar i konflikten.

Enligt fjärde Genèvekonventionen ska hjälpsändningar med mediciner och medicinsk utrustning, samt föremål som erfordras för att kunna genomföra religiösa ceremonier ha fri genomfart för att komma civilbefolkningen tillgodo.

Fri genomfart ska även garanteras för matvaror, kläder och vatten till barn under femton år och gravida kvinnor.

Reglerna i den fjärde Genèvekonventionen är inte bara tillämpbara på människor utan omfattar även civil egendom samt kulturella och religiösa byggnader.

http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gen%C3%A8vekonventionerna

Blackwater or Academi

"The name Academi was selected to better communicate the new company's focus on future growth," the company website reads.

Academi, one of the three largest US State Department private security contractors, has been involved in several major scandals in Iraq since it received its first contracts there in 2003.

The most serious incident came to be known as the Blackwater Baghdad shootings. In September 2007 Blackwater personnel opened fire at Nisour Square in Baghdad resulting in the deaths of 17 civilians.
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US uses contractors to bypass

international humanitarian laws

RT 2012-08-28
The use of private contractors allows the US to evade responsibility for violations of international humanitarian legislation, a top Russian diplomat for human rights and democracy said.


The comment came from Foreign Ministry Commissioner Konstantin Dolgov as the US Justice Department halted an investigation into the attempted bribing of Iraqi police officials by employees of the Blackwater security company (re-branded as ‘Academi’ in late 2011).

Blackwater attempted to pay $1 million in bribes for new contracts in Iraq, and also to block an investigation into the 2007 murder of 17 Iraqi civilians, including several children, by Blackwater operatives, a statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s website said.


The US State Department didn’t end its relationship with Blackwater for two years after the tragedy, Dolgov said.

“Despite the scandalous experience with the Blackwater company, the US military and foreign policy agencies continue to attract contractors for doing the ‘dirty work’ in the zone of armed conflicts,” Dolgov said.

“Such outsourcing of state functions to private firms allows the US government to evade the responsibility for violation of international humanitarian norms.”


“The Blackwater case is a vivid example of impunity enjoyed by the employees of private security companies, despite blatant violations of international Human Rights standards.

The current situation is a result of the inconsistent and selective actions of the US authorities, who ignore the rights of Iraqis who fall victim to the employees of private security companies.


We expect that the US authorities will at last take some measures to punish the responsible contractors of the company formerly known as Blackwater,” the statement read.

Dolgov added that a US court had sentenced Russian citizen Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison for his alleged intention to sell weapons to Colombian rebels, while the “company that succeeded Blackwater” received no punishment after confessing to illegally supplying weapons to Iraq, Afghanistan and Sudan.


“- Is it not a very visual demonstration of double standards used by the US justice?” he said.

http://rt.com/politics/us-contractors-international-blackwater-754/

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