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Nevertheless, according to a statement issued by the White House, the U.S. government will choose “on the basis of a sense of legal obligation to treat the principles set forth in Article 75 [ap I] as applicable to any person it denies in an international armed conflict and expects all other nations to respect those principles.” Fact Sheet: New Actions on Guantanamo and Detainee Policy, March 7, 2011. But even in the midst of the massacre of history, statements and incantations of humanitarian norms have often been made to protect the victims of armed conflict: wounded, sick and shipwrecked. These date from antiquity. [17] to name just a few examples from a long list in history. .