The United Arab Emirates is expanding a covert campaign to back a winner in Sudan’s civil war. Waving the banner of the Red Crescent, it is also smuggling weapons and deploying drones.
All the while, the Emirates is presenting itself as a champion of peace, diplomacy and international aid. It is even using one of the world’s most famous relief symbols — the Red Crescent, the counterpart of the Red Cross — as a cover for its secret operation to fly drones into Sudan and smuggle weapons to fighters, satellite images show and American officials say.
Sounds awfully close to perfidy and a violation of the Geneva conventions. Red Crescent is a protected symbol called out in it.
Sounds awfully close to perfidy and a violation of the Geneva conventions. Red Crescent is a protected symbol called out in it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy