{"id":611,"date":"2008-05-11T13:32:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/?p=611"},"modified":"2008-06-17T17:27:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T21:27:19","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/uncategorized\/introduction\/611\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive to al-Jazeera: The Geneva Conventions: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/2008\/06\/handbook_start_091.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs-wnet-preprod.digi-producers.pbs.org\/wnet\/wideangle\/files\/2008\/06\/handbook_start_091.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"handbook_start_091\" width=\"500\" height=\"145\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-613\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nBy Anne E. Mahle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During times of war, government leaders, the press, international jurists, human rights activists and even friends in casual conversation bandy about phrases like &#8220;the Geneva Conventions require&#8221; or &#8220;that is prohibited by the Geneva Conventions&#8221; to explain or comment on events occurring during the course of the armed conflict. But what are the Geneva Conventions? And who is bound by them?    <\/p>\n<p>Anne Mahle is an attorney at Faegre &amp; Benson in Minneapolis. During law school she worked at the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the University of California Berkeley (Boalt Hall).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne E. 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