Год выпуска: 2013 Автор: Jose Ignacio Coelho Mendes Neto Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 172 ISBN: 9783659336003
Описание
The condition of a war prisoner is the next worst thing to being in combat. The treatment of prisoners is one of the major concerns of the rules of war. Prisoners of war now have numerous rights conferred to them by several legal documents. However, these rights are frequently not respected. This reality is transposed from the battlefields to the cinema. War movies that deal with prisoners of war show various instances of noncompliance with the rules of war. But do they match the historical reality and legal requirements? The analysis of war movies provides different views on the enforcement of international humanitarian law. War movies can show how international humanitarian law can ease the sufferings inevitably caused by war. On the other hand, if international humanitarian law cannot give adequate protection to combatants, prisoners and civilians, the solution must be the elimination of war itself. Different moral conceptions of war are thus reflected in the images of war conveyed...