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Legal Aspects of the Continued Detention of the Pakistani Prisoners of War by India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2017

Howard S. Levie*
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University Law School

Abstract

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Copyright © American Society of International Law 1973

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References

1 75 UNTS 31; 6 USTS 3114. The specific Convention with which we are here concerned, covering the subject of prisoners of war, appears at 75 UNTS 135; 6 USTS 3316; 47 AJIL STOP. 119 (1953).

2 78 UNTS 365.

3 96 UNTS 325.

4 Int. Rev. of the Red Cross, June 1972, at 333.

5 N. Y. Times, Dec. 17, 1971, at 1, c. 5–6.

6 Ibid., at 16, c. 5–8.

7 RES/2793 (XXVI), Dec. 7, 1971; 66 AJIL 711 (1972).

8 N. Y. Times, Dec. 17, 1971, at 1, c. 8; ibid., Dec. 18, 1971, at 1, c. 8.

9 S/RES 307, Dec. 21, 1971; 11 ILM 125 (1972); 66 AJIL 710 (1972).

10 11 ILM 954 (1972).

11 N. Y. Times, Nov. 28, 1972, at 1, c. 2. Although the announcements were made unilaterally, the prisoners of war were actually formally exchanged on Dec. 1, 1972. Int. Rev. of the Red Cross, Jan. 1973, at 23.

12 Supra note 5; 11 ILM 125, note (1972).

13 2 Lauterpacht’s Oppenheim, International Law 368 (7tk ed., 1952).