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ICRC
seeks to clarify the fate of more than 800 missing persons
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14-02-2007
(ICRC)
The
list of names of more than 800 persons reported missing by their families
is to be published tomorrow, 15th February, in Nepal by the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in an attempt to obtain information on
their fate.
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| "Today,
the ICRC has the names of more than 800 people who remain unaccounted for
in the wake of the armed conflict. The families of these missing persons
suffer intolerably from not knowing what has happened to their loved ones
and they have the right to know", stated Mary Werntz, Head of the Delegation
of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Nepal.
Under
international humanitarian law, all parties to the conflict must take all
feasible measures to account for persons reported missing as a result of
the armed conflict and must provide their families with any information
they have on their fate. |
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"I
appeal to all families anxiously waiting for news of their missing relatives
and to anyone else who may know about the fate of a person who remains
unaccounted for to check our list. If your missing relative is not on the
list, or if you have any information about the fate of anyone on the list,
please contact the nearest Red Cross office and make sure it is informed"
said Ms. Werntz, on the eve of the publication of the ICRC List of Missing
Persons in Nepal.
Since
it began work in Nepal in 1998, the ICRC has regularly submitted all requests
concerning missing persons to the parties to the armed conflict and demanded
that families be told about the fate of these persons. The ICRC and the
Nepalese Red Cross are firmly committed to pursuing their efforts on behalf
of the families and to alleviating their suffering.
The
list will be published in the newspaper Gorkapatra on 15 February 2007
and will be available in electronic form at www.familylinks.icrc.org and
www.nrcs.org.
Source:
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), 2007
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