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| − | '''Prisoner abuse''' is the crime of mistreating a civil or military prisoner. The worst violators, of course, are dictatorships of the Communist and Fascist type. Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler is notorious for murdering 6,000,000 Jews (see [[The Holocaust]]) and around 5,000,000 others | + | '''Prisoner abuse''' is the crime of mistreating a civil or military prisoner. [[North Vietnam]] routinely beat and tortured American captured American pilots. |
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| + | The worst violators, of course, are dictatorships of the Communist and Fascist type. Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler is notorious for murdering 6,000,000 Jews (see [[The Holocaust]]) and around 5,000,000 others. <ref>It is less well known (or accepted) that [[Josef Stalin]] and [[Mao Tse Tung]] each murdered ten times as many.</ref> | ||
Revision as of 14:57, March 6, 2008
Prisoner abuse is the crime of mistreating a civil or military prisoner. North Vietnam routinely beat and tortured American captured American pilots.
The worst violators, of course, are dictatorships of the Communist and Fascist type. Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler is notorious for murdering 6,000,000 Jews (see The Holocaust) and around 5,000,000 others. [1]
- ↑ It is less well known (or accepted) that Josef Stalin and Mao Tse Tung each murdered ten times as many.