In previous wars POWs were held until the end of hostilities, or exchanged for our POWs.

Being that the people challenging their continued captivity are pushing for them to be treated IAW the Geneva convention, which allows for POW's to be held until the cessation of hostilities, I see no reason not to oblige them.


We could, of course, take the other action allowed by the GC, which makes it perfectly legal to summarily execute armed civilians found engaged in combat on the battlefield. (The justification for this is that when the GC was written, they were assumed to be spies or illegal combatants, the GC didn't anticipate NGO's engaging in warfare.)