Swiss Find That Gamers Commit War Crimes Study Finds That Most Video Games Don't Follow The Geneva Convention

Two Swiss human rights organizations got together and tested a set of 19
war games, with the goal of looking for 'virtual' rights violations and
the breaking of the Geneva Convention. Not surprisingly, they found that
most war games don't follow the Geneva Convention.
Released on the heals of 'Modern Warfare 2′ (which featured
aย segmentย where players could kill several hundred civilians in a
Russian airport), the report from the Swiss claims that games are
sending the wrong message to the world's youth. They claim that games
today promote the idea that wars today are waged without limits and that
counter-terrorist operations have no legal or moral limitations.
The Swiss found that the following things were currently allowed in
popular war video games, killing civilians,
torture,ย unnecessaryย destruction of buildings, killing of combatants
who surrendered, the use of heavy anti-vehicle weapons on on-foot
combatants, and finally, the destruction ofย churchesย and mosques.
The study scolds game developers, saying that players of these games
will often commit several war crimes during theย play through, and then
are rewarded at the end of the game, where in real life, they would be
punished for war crimes. The Swiss don't want games less violent, they
just want war games to more accurately and safely follow the rules of
the Geneva Convention.
Sound off, TFTS readers: Do you feel that games should enforce virtual
soldiers to follow the Geneva Convention? Should players be punished for
not following the Geneva Convention?