In our fibre-optic world of tweets and tablets, we are more conscious of the world around us. The technicolour violence and humanitarian abuses of today are just a flick of a switch away. In our homes, on the train, in our coffee shops, we see it, we feel it, we know about it. All of us. All of the time. Human suffering is visible, constantly.

The sad fact is that horrendous human conflict is nothing new.

We need to understand that the Geneva Conventions are not just some historical documents born of another time, created for another purpose.

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