Please reference Article 3 of the Geneva convention and it’s follow on under the rules of conflict:
(c) outrages upon personal dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment;
This applies further under Article 16:
ARTICLE 16. -WOUNDED AND SICK: GENERAL PROTECTION
The wounded and sick, as well as the infirm,and exfiectant mothers, shall be the object of particular protection and respect.
As far as military considerations allow, each Party to the conflict shall facilitate the steps taken to search for the killed and wounded, to assist the shipwrecked and others exposed to grave danger, and to protect them against pillage and ill-treatment.
I would say being photographed holding a dead fighter by the hair and brandishing a knife toward him qualifies as ill-treatment.
Being a combat troop is more than just killing. We in the US deal with laws whether others do or do not. And we are well trained in them. Gallagher should have known better. He most likely put people in worse danger by doing what he did. They have a good memory.
rwood
I get that, but my question is about terrorists, out of uniform, killing/spying, are these people protected by the GC. Maybe I should have worded more clearly...