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Let's say, just for a moment, that all of these civilians were armed and fighting. They weren't killed in a battle. They were already captured. That would make them POW and entitled to their own set of rights. Torture and execution is a war crime in that case as well.
They are not civilians when that carry guns, in all military systems around the world, to be labeled as an OP4 your uniform has nothing to do with that, its about what you carrying in your hand and on who you are shooting.
No POW must be tortured and executed, as long as no longer having a gun in hand.