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Providing support for Red Cross volunteers and other humanitarian workers following a security incident or a disaster

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Barthold Bierens de Haan*
Affiliation:
ICRC Medical officer responsible for stress management

Extract

In the early hours of 17 December 1996, six members of the Red Cross team working at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi, Chechnya, were murdered in their sleep by a group of masked men using weapons fitted with silencers. A seventh delegate was wounded but managed to escape with his life.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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