On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 23:27:35 +0000, NOYB wrote:


Are you implying that the war is over? Because that is when they
officially become "occupation forces".

Not technically correct. We have been avoiding the use of the term
occupation, as it opens a can of worms.

http://www.asil.org/insights/insigh107a1.htm

And from: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew120.php

" In fact, it appears that no State has ever formally applied the IVth
Geneva Convention to territory under its control. The laws of occupation,
as they were then, were not applied to the allied occupation of Germany
after World War II on the grounds that the Reich no longer existed and
therefore there was no previous sovereign whose rights needed protection."