What are the Geneva Conventions?
They are a series of international treaties designed to lessen some of the horrors of warfare. First adopted more than a century ago and expanded over the years, the conventions prohibit torture, the taking of hostages, mass deportations, summary executions, and other atrocities. Prisoners of war, the conventions state,
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