NDA team shines at international competition

The main aim of the competition was to teach the cadets of various military academies,the law of armed conflict in conjunction with the intricacies of application of these rules within the conjuncture of contemporary armed conflicts. It also offered an international forum where cadets from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds learnt to work together.

The NDA team comprised Cap Sanket Baweja,Cdt Rohit Shekhar,Cdt RS Gupta and Cdt Sanjeev Timsina.

Cdt Rohit Shekhar led his team to victory and Cdt R S Gupta bagged fifth prize in the individual category. The team’s participation was supported by the Regional Delegation in New Delhi of the International Committee of the Red Cross. According to Brig (Retd) M B Anand,who is on the board of consultants with the ICRC,LOAC or the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is a branch of international law and is based on Geneva Conventions.

It concerns,firstly,protection of those who are not taking part in an armed conflict directly and secondly on limitations on means and methods of warfare which have been universally agreed to by almost all countries of the world including India (like non-use of poisonous gases).

Anand emphasised that principles of IHL/LOAC are in conformity with Indian military ethos. Indian military leadership has strived to ensure minimising innocent civilian casualties.