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Belligerents hold prisoners of war in custody for a range of legitimate and illegitimate reasons, such as isolating them from the [[enemy combatant]]s still in the field (releasing and [[Repatriation|repatriating]] them in an orderly manner after hostilities), demonstrating military victory, punishing them, prosecuting them for [[war crime]]s, [[exploitation of labour|exploiting them for their labour]], recruiting or even [[Conscription|conscripting]] them as their own combatants, collecting military and political intelligence from them, or [[Indoctrination|indoctrinating]] them in new political or religious beliefs.<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://www.ajol.info/index.php/smsajms/article/viewFile/42654/9522 |author=John Hickman |title=What is a Prisoner of War For |journal=Scientia Militaria |volume=36 |issue=2 |date=2002 |access-date=14 September 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326032030/http://www.ajol.info/index.php/smsajms/article/viewFile/42654/9522|archive-date=March 26, 2023}}</ref>
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