Prisoners Of War stories:
Madoff 'Prisoner' Watch Brings $65000 in Sale of Seized Goods
Nov 14th, 2009 - Bloomberg
Nov. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Ruth Madoff’s 14-carat diamondearrings sold for $70,000 today in a Manhattan auction ofkeepsakes, jewelry and clothing owned by Bernard L. Madoff...Despite shortages in Canada, Afghan detainees to get swine flu vaccine
Nov 10th, 2009 - StarTribune
TORONTO - Taliban detainees in Canadian custody in Afghanistan will receive swine flu vaccinations ahead of the majority of Canadians in Canada, where there is a shortage of the vaccine — a move Canada's health minister called outrageous.
'Rolling Thunder' Bikers Roll Into Washington for Annual Rally
May 24th, 2009 - VOA News
Thousands of motorcycle riders from across the United States have come to Washington for an annual rally on Memorial Day weekend. Participants in "Rolling Thunder" gather to draw attention to the cases of U.S...
PoW who helped to dig Great Escape tunnel dies at 97
Apr 29th, 2009 - Times Online
One of the men who helped 76 prisoners of war to escape the Nazis’ notoriousStalag Luft III camp during the Second World War has died at 97. Alex Lees helped to dig the tunnels and...
Australian officer: Anzac Day to remember sacrifices in war
Apr 24th, 2009 - XinHua
CANBERRA, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Australian chief of the defense force Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said on Saturday that Anzac Day is a time to reflect on the sacrifices of defense force personnel in the past and present. "On Anzac Day...
Prisoners Of War videos from YouTube:
8:54Civil War Minutes Part 46 - Prisoner of War Camp
Part 46 of the Civil War Minutes documentary series about soldiers in the Civil War. PRISONER OF WAR CAMP. Learn from a first-hand account how life as a prisoner of war was sometimes as good as it was bad. See how the Confederate ...
8:58American Prisoners of War in China! Part 1/5
It is January 1954. The Korean War is over. Captured UN soldiers held in POW camps are free to return home. Those who refuse repatriation to their homeland are transferred to a neutral zone and given 90 days to reconsider their decision ...
6:36American Prisoners of War in China! Part 5/5
Americans in cold war China?! Voluntarily?! This is the story about 22 brave and unusual American soldiers who decided to stay in China instead of returning home after the war in Korea. This great documentary is about their lives in communist China ...
9:59American Prisoners of War in China! Part 4/5
Americans in cold war China?! Voluntarily?! This is the story about 22 brave and unusual American soldiers who decided to stay in China instead of returning home after the war in Korea. This great documentary is about their lives in China, and their experience in Korea and afterwards in America.
Prisoners Of War from WikiPedia:
A prisoner of war (POW, PoW, PW, P/W, WP, or PsW) or enemy prisoner of war (EPW) is a combatant who is held in continuing custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase is dated 1660.
According to John Hickman, captor states hold captured combatants and non-combatants in continuing custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons. They are held to isolate them from combatants still in the field, to release and repatriate them in an orderly manner after hostilities, to demonstrate military victory, to punish them, to prosecute them for war crimes, to exploit them for their labor, to recruit or even conscript them as their own combatants, to collect military and political intelligence from them, and to indoctrinate them in new political or religious beliefs.
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