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Praveen Swami is a Contributing Editor to ThePrint, and writes on issues related to national security, intelligence, police and regional geopolitics. An award-winning journalist who has extensive experience of reporting from theatres of conflict in the Middle-East, India and East Asia, he is the author of two books on the Kashmir conflict. Praveen can be reached at praveen.swami@theprint.in
Swami spends an entire essay mourning the death of the Geneva Conventions — the same conventions that also ban using hospitals as military bunkers and hiding rockets in schools. Hamas does exactly that, on camera, repeatedly. Yet Hamas gets zero mentions. Gaza appears once, solely to blame Israel.
So apparently, humanitarian law is sacred — just not sacred enough to apply to everyone breaking it.
Nice sermon, Praveen. Kudos about the blind spot.