17. Individual status in armed conflict: combatants, non-combatants, direct participation in hostilities, prisoners of war (topic 6)
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Instructions
Activity
Answer how the current state-of-art definition is in relation to taking people as POWs in armed conflict, as detailied in the question.
Introduction
Definition of prisoners of war was developed through the whole history of the mankind and conflict. There were different huge numbers of people taking into custody during armed conflict and considered as prisoners of war (POWs).
Read about development of the term POWs in its encyclopaedic definition and answer in relation to current state-of-art of POWs position in armed conflict.
http://www.britannica.com/topic/prisoner-of-war Links to an external site.