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Originally posted by Amethyst
I haven't read the entire Geneva Convention, but is rape allowed?
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...06-lynch_x.htm
Lynch book tells of rape by captors
By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY
PALESTINE, W.Va. — Jessica Lynch, the former prisoner of war whose rescue made her the most famous GI in the Iraq war, was raped by her captors, according to her authorized biography.
Rick Bragg's book also casts doubts on the claim of an Iraqi lawyer who says he helped rescue the soldier.
Glamour Magazine handout
But the book, which will be released Tuesday, says Lynch has no memory of being sexually assaulted, and she appreciates her treatment in an Iraqi hospital after her vehicle crashed during an Iraqi ambush.
In the book, author Rick Bragg writes that scars on Lynch's body and medical records indicate she was sodomized, but that Lynch recalls nothing: "Jessi lost three hours. She lost them in the snapping bones, in the crash of the Humvee, in the torment her enemies inflicted on her after she was pulled from it."
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No, rape is not allowed by the Geneva convention.
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Given that the Jessica Lynch story, including the theatrics of her dramatic door-busting rescue from an Iraqi hospital that had been abandoned by its guards, is now viewed in much of the world as pure propaganda, the whole affair is certainly worthy of examination. Lynch, for her part, wonders why the raid to rescue her was recorded with night vision film; a curious reporter might also question the release of only a small fraction of that footage by the Pentagon.
It is odd that Bragg would not recognize that this official spin is a key part of the Jessica Lynch story. By ignoring it, he renders his book little more than a thinly disguised soap opera.
Bragg compounds this failing by accepting at face value the military's report (strangely, never actually quoted) that Lynch was sexually abused during the three hours between the time her Humvee crashed and she was taken to an Iraqi emergency hospital (where her life was saved by quite heroic doctors and nurses). The alleged sexual abuse, of which Lynch has no memory, gave the book the headlines that will perhaps boost sales, but it is discounted by the Iraqi doctors who examined her and is treated as a more ambiguous possibility by American doctors interviewed by the news media.
Both Lynch and Bragg, however, are quite clear that she was never abused in the two Iraqi hospitals where she was treated, amid a scene of wounded children and other civilians awaiting their turns.
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--http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17229
But, as I replied in your PM, this is old news and I don't see much point in rehashing things Jessica Lynch has denied ever occured in personal interviews.
The people in these "prisons" haven't been convicted of anything and shouldn't be treated like prisoners. Even if they deserved to be treated as prisoners, we don't subject our prisoners to death by snake bites, broom stick rapings, and electroction for information.