At the International Colloquium held by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, at Sanremo last September, a paper was submitted on military instructions concerning the treatment of prisoners in situations arising from guerrilla warfare. In view of the importance of the subject and of the interesting references made to history, we are publishing the introduction and conclusion of this study, which will later appear in the official records of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law, as well as some of the historical examples given by the author. (Ed.)

It will be recalled that the ICRC delegates in India—Mr. R. Du Pasquier, head of the delegation, and Dr. R. Marti, ICRC head physician—visited wounded Pakistani prisoners of war in December 1971, and that they subsequently visited other wounded prisoners. The ICRC delegates started visiting the prisoners of war held in Indian camps—and, as we mentioned in last month's issue, there are a great many of them—early in February. They are now carrying on the job by visiting other camps. More than 30,000 Pakistani prisoners were visited by the delegates while still in the Dacca area.

In Israel, all the Arab prisoners of war in the Sarafand military camp prison were visited on 23 January and 11 February 1972. There were 62 Egyptians, 42 Syrians and one Jordanian.

The Neutral Commission appointed by the ICRC to decide on claims made by Polish victims of pseudo-medical experiments carried out in concentration camps during the Second World War, met at ICRC Headquarters in Geneva from 6 to 8 January 1972. It comprised Mr. Lenoir, the Chairman, a Judge of the Geneva Law Courts, Dr. S. Mutrux, Assistant Administrator of the Bel-Air Psychiatric Clinic in Geneva, and Dr. P. Magnenat, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Assistant at the University Clinic of the Nestlé Hospital in Lausanne.

As announced in a previous issue, the ICRC is organizing the second session of the Conference of Government Experts on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, to be held from 3 May to 3 June 1972.

Last year, the first session was preceded by a meeting of Red Cross experts at The Hague in March. A similar meeting will be held in 1972, to permit National Societies to keep abreast of developments in the work in hand.

Last autumn, we described the Red Cross Broadcasting Service, mentioning the inauguration of programmes by directed beam. We remind our readers that every two months the International Committee of the Red Cross broadcasts a series of 30-minute programmes in English, French and Arabic to eight areas on the earth's surface, in Africa, Asia, Australia and the Middle East.

On several occasions, the International Review has mentioned the efforts of the ICRC to make known the principles of the Geneva Conventions in schools through the medium of the school textbook “The Red Cross and My Country”, of which over one million copies have been distributed, in 16 languages, in 45 countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia. Its purpose is to instil the basic Red Cross principles into primary school pupils, and an explanatory “Teacher's Manual” accompanies the textbook.