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International Red Cross Chief to World: ‘What the Hell?’

STOP THE INSANITY

As certain presidential candidates advocate for flouting the Geneva Conventions, the head of the International Red Cross wants to remind us why we came up with the rules of war in the first place.

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The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross is on a mission to defend the Geneva Conventions—the decades-old laws of armed conflict meant to make war more humane, now being spurned by actors as diverse as the so-called Islamic State to U.S.

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