Sentence examples for captives of war from inspiring English sources
Indian adults accused of being vagrants without steady employment, or taken as captives of war, could be apprenticed for 10-year terms.
Furthermore, "all slaves of persons... engaged in rebellion... that [come] under the control of the government of the United States... shall be deemed captives of war, and shall be forever free of their servitude".
The following March Congress prohibited the military from sending escaped slaves back into slavery, and in July the Second Confiscation Act decreed that all slaves that took refuge in Union areas were "captives of war" and would be set free.
The Roman games involved brutally cruel public performance of violence on subjugated human bodies such as criminals, slaves, captives of war, and Christians.
Unless they speak, veterans may remain captives of war's demons.
He referred to a now lost depiction in the mortuary temple of Ramses II with captives of war "without hands and privy members" (Diodorus Siculus 1814, Jonckheere 1954).
The administration could abide by the convention and still deny the captives prisoner-of-war status.
President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers emerge remarkably badly on this issue, seemingly determined not to bother Stalin with such trifles.The most revolting and murky twist to the story is the treatment of another wave of American captives: prisoners-of-war in Germany who had the misfortune to be freed by Soviet troops and were deported to the Gulag.
Ronnie Dewberry, 54, another strike leader who has adopted the name Sitawa Nantambu Jamaa, called himself a "captive new Afrikan prisoner of war" unjustly jailed for a 1980 murder he denies.
The remnants of the German Sixth Army some 91,000 men out of an army of 285,000 surrendered in early February 1943; only 5,000 of these captives survived the Russian prisoner of war camps to see Germany again.
Although Pentagon officials have stopped short of considering Mr. Walker or other possible captives prisoners of war, preferring for legal reasons to call them detainees.
