1. And the Japanese have almost, but not quite, apologized for their horrific treatment of captured British war prisoners in the camps of Southeast Asia. 2. And they came home to find furloughed German war prisoners welcome where they were forbidden. 3. As a proud member of the U.S. Army, Segundo Gacoray survived the infamous Bataan Death March that killed thousands of war prisoners of the Japanese. 4. Aid workers also told of accounts of opposition soldiers who packed war prisoners into metal truck containers. 5. Bowers said a Red Cross representative met with the men in private, as called for in the Geneva Conventions on treatment of war prisoners. 6. But Bush declines to criticize McCain, a Navy pilot who was a war prisoner in Vietnam. 7. But that should not be the case with the suit by former war prisoners. 8. But Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has refused to call them war prisoners, saying Yugoslavia has not declared war on the United States or its allies. 9. Defense Department officials said they were revealing the information to quash false reports in the South Korean press suggesting that U.S. war prisoners were alive in North Korea. 10. Disturbingly, however, the Pentagon is now raising the possibility of detaining Afghan war prisoners indefinitely, even after acquittal by a military tribunal. |