Better law for the world’s conflicts - Irish Red Cross conference

Revulsion at the shocking deaths of hundreds in an aerial bombardment by German and Italian forces inspired Picasso’s searing picture of the Spanish town of Guernica. The bombing provoked outrage across Europe that the prohibitions established by international law were bypassed by what was then a new and deadlier form of warfare, remarked Chatham House’s Louise Arimatsu at the start of the Irish Red Cross’s annual conference on international humanitarian law.

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