Mr. Doherty was not extraditable for the same reason that Britain would not surrender Confederate soldiers who fled to Canada during our Civil War.
On the 14th, and again on the 21st, she captured two surrendering Japanese soldiers from Enejet and the island of Bokku.
As they moved into their attack by fire position, TF 4-70 reported two BRDM's and several surrendering Iraqi soldiers.
He surrendered 536 officers and soldiers, 79 Canadien and 8 English volunteers.
This was the first battle in the Pacific War in which surrendering Japanese soldiers were made into POWs by the thousands.
The troops themselves encountered little resistance and, apart from several minor tank battles, were met primarily by surrendering soldiers.
The Hague rules clearly said that surrendering soldiers must not be attacked.
"War planners need to take into account the impact of large numbers of surrendering Iraqi soldiers," he said.
The threefold tax of Trinoda necessitas usually required an obligation on the land to surrender soldiers, to repair fortifications and to repair bridges.
The soldiers would be allowed to march away as men leaving under orders, not as conquered and surrendering soldiers.