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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
Barthold Bierens de Haan*
Affiliation:
ICRC Medical officer responsible for stress management
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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
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Special Issue 318: The Convention on Bacteriological (Biological) Weapons: 25 Years On , June 1997 , pp. 318 - 323
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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