IRAQ-KUWAIT: SITUATION REPORT #491 - POWS TO BE HUMAN SHIELDS

Created: 1/21/1991

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COMMENTARY

IITOATIOK REPORT

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0 EST this morning, Baghdad radiotatement by an Iraqi military spokesman daclarlnq that coalition prisoners-of-war would be distributed to strategic tarqcts in Iraq. The spokesman denounced the bombing of civilian, economic, and strategic targets within the cities, saying "the aggression has been devoid of the minimum huaan standards." PJ|

Comaenti This announcement, in addition to the coerced stateaents of downed coalition pilots, is evidence ofisregard for the Geneva Convention, of which itignatory.

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