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Ten million messages in one year

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Extract

The ICRC Central Tracing Agency (CTA) is doing a big job in the Asian sub-continent.

In one year, that is from March 1972 to March 1973, the Geneva office dealt with 24,000 inquiries (in round figures) divided into three categories: inquiries from the families of missing civilians or army men (8,000), inquiries about prisoners of war and their families (10,000), and inquiries received mainly from civilians in Pakistan and India (6,000). Moreover, the CTA has computerized 270,000 index cards.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1973

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