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L'action de l'Agence centrale de recherches du CICR dans les Balkans durant la crise des réfugiés kosovars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 April 2010

Thierry Schreyer
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Abstract

Any mass movement of civilians leaving their homes under the pressure of war creates a number of urgent humanitarian problems. Refugees have to be fed and given shelter and medical care, etc. However, refugees also want to know the whereabouts of and what happened to relatives who stayed at home, were lost on the way or were arrested. It is the task of the ICRC's Central Tracing Agency to restore contact between the victims of conflict situations and, if necessary, to help reunite separated family members, especially children and their parents. The article deals with the last chapter of the Balkan crisis, with its immense and rapid flow of refugees out of Kosovo, and describes the Central Tracing Agency's response to it.

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Research Article
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International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 82 , Issue 837: The Kosovo crisis and international humanitarian law/La crise du Kosovo et le driot international humanitaire , March 2000 , pp. 49 - 65
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2000

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l Au total, plus de 90 000 personnes ontété transférées de Macédoine vers des pays tiers.

2 Le message Croix-Rouge a été largement utilisé lors du conflit bosniaque, notamment terriparce qu'il était le seul moyen de communication encore existant. Le CICR en a distribué plus de 18 millions, mais il était alors present, avec les Croix-Rouge locales, sur tout le territoire.

3 De Janvier à septembre 1999, le CICR a visité 184 000 personnes, dont 21000 pour la première fois, dans plus de 1 400 lieux de détention répartis dans près de 50 pays.