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17 December 1996: Six ICRC delegates assassinated in Chechnya

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

François Bugnion
François Bugnion*
Affiliation:
Delegate General for Eastern Europe and Central Asia
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In the early hours of 17 December 1996, six delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross were assassinated in a brutal attack by gunmen at the ICRC hospital in Novye Atagi, near Grozny.

In late summer 1996, the ICRC had decided to open a field hospital in Chechnya because the main hospitals in Grozny had been seriously damaged, thus leaving large numbers of war-wounded without proper care.

Type
International Committee of the Red Cross
Information
International Review of the Red Cross (1961 - 1997) , Volume 37 , Issue 317 , April 1997 , pp. 140 - 142
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1997

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