Today, we pay solemn tribute to service members who bore war's tragic costs as prisoners of war and those missing in action.
After receiving a degree in sociology from Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Shriver worked for the U.S. State Department in the Special War Problems Division from 1943 to 1945, helping former prisoners of war readjust to civilian life.
The US justice department argues that Bagram differs from Guantanamo Bay because it is in an overseas war zone and prisoners there are being held as part of ongoing military action.
At the summit, the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia agreed to resume all-party talks, suspend U.N. sanctions on Bosnian Serbs, work to ease tensions in Sarajevo and the divided town of Mostar and adopt a policy on war crimes and prisoners.
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By May 5th, the Pentagon was considering a reciprocal release of two Yugoslav prisoners of war.
The European Union has said the detainees should be afforded the same rights as prisoners of war.
Among those present were former prisoners of war in the Far East, as well as Japanese veterans.
"Captured combatants must be treated as Prisoners of War in accordance with the Third Geneva Convention, " it added.
"They said we were not prisoners of war because there was no legal declaration of war, " Certain says.
Prisoners of war are said to have been held in the attic for interrogation purposes during World War II.
U.S. authorities have not classed them as prisoners of war, which would give them rights under the Geneva Conventions.
More than 90, 000 Pakistani soldiers and officers surrendered to the Indian army and were taken as prisoners of war.
Clinton singled out the service of veterans who were prisoners of war, and also remembered those missing in action.
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He was praised for tending to Dutch prisoners of war in Great Yarmouth.
The next, his ears hurt from the roars of a crowd cheering the return of former prisoners of war.
Iraq's ambassador to Russia Tuesday pledged Iraq's commitment to abide by the Geneva Conventions concerning the treatment of prisoners of war.
The IRS issued a series of rulings in the 1950s and 1960s, involving prisoners of war, civilian internees and holocaust survivors.
Five other members of the company were seen on Iraqi television shortly after their capture and remain listed as prisoners of war.
However, the appeals court judges ruled that the 1949 convention on the rights of prisoners of war did not apply to members of al-Qaeda.
In 1992, fifty-seven prisoners of war, released after an average of six months in detention camps in the former Yugoslavia, were examined using EEG-like tests.
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As the Argentinian prisoners of war were loaded onto British troop carriers, Tony and his mates made sure they were not carrying any personal possessions.
U.S. Central Command identified the freed prisoners of war as Spc.
Historians estimate 1.1 million people were killed there - one million of them were Jews but there were also Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others.
In the 1950s, the IRS issued a series of rulings according tax-free status for payments to survivors of Nazi persecution, U.S. prisoners of war, and Japanese-American internees.
The colonel was himself investigated, after a false claim that he had mistreated civilians and prisoners of war in Iraq, and was later cleared of any wrongdoing.
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He followed that up with Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, starring rock star David Bowie and Tom Conti as WWII prisoners of war, interned in a Japanese camp.
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It did not afford them the privileges enjoyed by legitimate prisoners of war--those who wear uniforms, carry weapons openly and otherwise comply with the rules of war.
Mr Hussein, fighting for his life, has quietly accelerated the repatriation of his remaining Iranian prisoners of war: fewer than 1, 000 are thought to be still in Iraqi hands.
How would they know about our women prisoners of war, or female military astronauts and code breakers, and the courage of young African-American women soldiers during World War II?
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