Unlawful ‘Enemy Combatants’ Guantánamo Bay Free Essay, Term Paper and Book Report
Unlawful ‘Enemy Combatants’
Guantánamo Bay
Thomas Black
Professor H Ameri
International Relations 5000
October 12, 2003
Executive Summary
An unlawful combatant is a secret agent, saboteur or (at times) a fanatic who pursues an armed purpose outside the normally accepted laws of war. Not being under the authority power of an identifiable body or not wearing the uniform of a sovereign state (as in spying) are the principal reasons for a fighter to be classified as ‘illegal’.
Global civilized law governs mutually statesÂ’ conduct throughout armed clash and the conditions for detaining enemy combatants. Under the Third 1949 Geneva Convention, combatants who fall into enemy hands are presumptively POWs and are entitled to all fundamental protections for that legal status.
The first batch of 20 ‘detainees’ arrived in Guantánamo Bay on January 2002, after a 20-hour flight from Afghanistan. The prisoners wore orange overalls and some reports said they were sedated, their heads hooded, and they were chained to their seats and to each......
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