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Address at the memorial service held at St Peter's Cathedral, Geneva 20 December 1996

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Marion Harroff-Tavel
Marion Harroff-Tavel*
Affiliation:
former Deputy Delegate General for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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There were six of them. Six individuals who with their skills, their hands and their hearts brought shelter, care, comfort and a smile to the wounded of the conflict in Chechnya. They came from Norway, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands and New Zealand, all under the banner of the Red Cross. They worked in the ICRC hospital at Novye Atagi. And they are no longer with us. A seventh lies wounded by the bullet which was intended to kill him. The grief of those who witnessed that carnage is felt by us all.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Issue 317 , April 1997 , pp. 136 - 139
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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