Because the country was under French colonial rule at the time, Vietnam
never signed the Articles.  Interestingly, Japan signed, but never ratified
the treaty.  Hence the country's military leaders were able to justify the
abyssmal treatment of civilians and POWs.

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Subject: Re: U.S. War Crimes ...WAS PISS



The Geneva Convention was supposed to keep this kind of thing from
happening,
but war is war is war.  I suspect that Vietnam has probably been the most
Monday Morning quarterbacked war of the 20th century.