Give an example of how the Japanese violated the Geneva Convention.

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Neveah Le

25 January, 04:33

Give an example of how the Japanese violated the Geneva Convention.

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Belinda · Answer 1

The Geneva Convention was created to take care of prisoners of war. Signatory states to the Geneva Convention are meant to rigorously carry out the stated intent of the Convention. However, in World War Two there were many examples of prisoners of war being treated in a manner outside of the ‘rules’ of the Geneva Convention. This ranged from the masses of POW’s captured by both the Germans and the Russians on the Eastern Front from 1941 to 1945 to the war in the Far East where the treatment of Allied POW’s by the Japanese has gone down in infamy.