Re: Cover ups

["Patricia Winston (Trish)" <winstonp001@hawaii.rr.com>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Cover ups


At 10:02 PM 8/9/01 EDT, Jhk789@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 8/9/2001 5:13:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>msmall@roanoke.infi.net writes:
>
>
>There is absolutely nothing contrary to either US or International law in
>machine-gunning Japanese soldiers after their boat was sunk,
>
>
>Marc,
>
>I wonder where you learned that law.
>Must be in the Army!
>
>One of the key principles of the humanitarian law
>is that it prohibits unnecessary suffering to combatants.
>Shooting at soldiers who are being drowned anyway is
>clearly unnecessary. In fact, the humane thing under
>such circumstances would be to rescue them and
>turn them over to prison camps.
>
>John2
>
>

I am a practicing attorney, John.

Until an enemy military personnel actually surrenders, US military law
requires that he be targeted.  Bear in mind that the incident involving
Morton was with Japanese soldiers -- who would not have surrendered in any
event -- whose ship had been sunk in shallow water close to land.  These
guys were swimming for the shore, where they would have been put to
military duties immediately -- such as shooting at WAHOO!

War can be brutal but there is a clear logic in continuing to attempt to
kill unsurrendered enemy soldiers!

Marc

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