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DOS Memo re: Talking Points Memo on the Status of Guantanamo Detainees as Unlawful Combatants

DOS | ACLU-RDI 3858
State Department talking points memo on the status of Guantanamo detainees as Unlawful Combatants vs. Prisoners of War (POWs). The memo cites the Geneva Convention's POW requirements that POWs wear a uniform with a distinctive insignia, that they adhere to military standards, including rate, rank and Chain-of-Command, and the combatant conforms to the Law of War to be afforded POW status. The memo also states that regardless of the POW or Unlawful Combatant status of the detainee(s), all detainees are being treated humanely and in consistent with the basic standards of the Geneva Convention, i.e. medical treatment, food, clothing and visitation by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC).
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