Italian POWs and a Texas Church is an especially valuable find for history and art enthusiasts.
Jesse Jackson, who urged Clinton to free the Serb POWs as a reciprocal gesture of good will.
POWs are required to give only their name, rank and serial number and must be repatriated after hostilities end.
Bliss had nine of its soldiers killed in the war and six who where POWs belonged to the post.
Both POWs are being held by U.S. forces and have been transferred to a U.S. base in Germany, according to administration sources.
Upon arrival at Fort Bliss, the soldiers' cargo plane was still taxiing down the runway when two of the former POWs -- Spec.
They were flown from Albania to Germany where they were visited by ICRC representatives, in accordance with the Geneva Conventions on treatment of POWs.
Two pilots, one in an Apache (that was) shot down on that mission by small arms fire, are now believed to be held inside iraq as POWs.
One of the first Nazi concentration camps, it was initially meant mainly for political prisoners, but inmates later included captives from Poland, Soviet and other POWs as well as Jews.
Former PoWs, who are demanding an apology for their treatment, say the decision highlights the sensitive timing of the award at a time they are still fighting for compensation.
During the war, he organized weekly meetings to pray for peace, accompanied officers who told relatives that their loved ones were gone, and spent time counseling friends and relatives of POWs.
Similarly, a letter sent to the people of Llanfyllin by the freed French PoWs on 17 June, 1817 states how "the esteemed inhabitants of Llanfyllin will ever remain in their thankful remembrance".
The five POWs -- members of the 507th Maintenance Company, based at Fort Bliss, Texas -- were interviewed in a video from Iraqi state-run television broadcast on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic-language satellite network based in Qatar.
The purpose of the provision is both to unify POWs under a common set of guidelines but also to articulate to the enemy that our men and women in uniform will not willingly provide intelligence information.
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There is extreme security, and although the officials here estimate that they're going to follow the Geneva Conventions governing prisoners of war, even though they don't consider these POWs, that they're going to be treated humanely.
Martyn Day, solicitor for the Japanese Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees Association, said the PoWs felt the honour was "surprising" at a time when many veterans were awaiting the outcome of a long-running legal battle for compensation from the Japanese authorities.
The negotiations went on for five years before Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho signed accords in January 1973 providing for a U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam and the release of American POWs by North Vietnam.
According to the Third Geneva Convention itself (the one covering POWs), for a person to qualify as a POW and be accorded the treatment proscribed in said convention, that person must be affiliated (either regular army or militia meaning some sort of uniform) with a "High Contracting Power" (a state that was party to the convention but for argument's sake we'll say any state).
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