Assertion: combatant | /r/HasProperty | lawful
Facets:
value: by the competent tribuneral
type: OTHER
value: according to the hague
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: For a combatant to be lawful, he must be operating under the auspices of a sovereign country.
text: What I was doing was giving examples of combatants who were unlawful combatants to answer Nomen Nescio's question.
text: What you say is all true, BUT under international law it is up to a "competent tribunal" to decide the issues of whether a combatant is lawful or unlawful and while it is being decided the prisoner must be treated as a POW.
text: As we have seen, the contention that these fighters are unlawful combatants is based upon a plausible reading of the Geneva Convention.
text: By declaring a fighter to be an Unlawful enemy combatant, the USA is saying:
text: Now, you have introduce a myriad of conflicts such as the definition of "combatant," the definition of "unlawful," the relation between International law and domestic law, the legitimacy of the ""war" on terrorism" and the nature and perspectives of those involved, differences between legal and conceptual definition, article style and flow, arguments over POV regarding implied comparisons and perspectives of concepts, etc. etc.
text: According to The Hague ‘jus in bello’ and Geneva Conventions, any combatant who does not match all four of the conditions set in Article 1 is considered an ‘unlawful’ combatant.
text: If you go and read article 3, article 4 and article 5 of the third Geneva Convention for yourself -- I highly recommend you do so -- you will find that the Geneva Convention does not actually state that a combatant has to wear a " uniform " or they will be considered an unlawful combatant.
text: What you say is all true, BUT under international law it is up to a "competent tribunal" to decide the issues of whether a combatant is lawful or unlawful and while it is being decided the prisoner must be treated as a POW.
text: Only after they have been found to be unlawful combatants by the competent tribuneral do they loose the protection under GCIII.