- Food accommodation Art. 26 & 34, GPW
a. If possible, utilize enemy food stocks and let them prepare their own food.
Art. 26, GPW.- Copy of GPW in POWs own language. Copies available at:
ICRC
Delegation to the UN
801 2nd Ave, lgth Fly
New York, NY 1 00 1 7
(2 12) 599-6021
FAX: (212) 599-6009- Due process. Art 99 - 108, GPW.
10.Hygiene Art. 29, GPW.a. Separate baths, showers and toilets must be provided for women prisoners
of war. Art 29, GPW.D. EPW Accountability. Art. 122 & 123, GPW.93
- Capture notification-PWIS. This system was utilized during Operations
Desert Storm and Operation Uphold Democracy. - EPW personal property. Art. 16, GWS; AR 190-8.
- EPW death. Art. 120 & 121, GPW.
a. 8 POWs died while under U.S. control during Desert Storm, 3 more died
under Saudi control after transfer from U.S. custody.b. Any death or serious injury to a POW requires an official inquiry.- Reprisals against EPWs are prohibited. Art. 13, GPW.94
93 See Vaughn A. Ary, Accounting for Prisoners of War: A Legal Review of the United States Artned Forces
Identification and Reporting Procedures, ARMYLAW.,August 1994, at 16, for an excellent review of the
United States system of traclung EPWs. See also Robert G. Koval, The National Prisoner-of- War Information
Center,MILITARYPOLICE(June 1992), at 25.
94 In Vietnam, by 1965 scores of U.S. servicemen had become prisoners of war. The US argued for full
protections under the GPW as by mid-1965 the hostilities had risen to the level of an armed conflict. See
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