MUNICH: Conflicts are deliberately being turned into wars against civilians with drones and other technology and countries are flouting international law with impunity, the Red Cross chief said Friday.
“We count and classify more conflicts today than we did 15 years ago – twice as many, four times as many as we did 30 years ago,” Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, told the Munich Security Conference.
“But it’s not only the numbers: it’s the intensity, it’s the scale and it’s the fact that conflicts are overlayered with fast technological advancement – amplifying the negative impacts on civilians, on entire countries, because they increase displacement at a fast pace,” she said.