لهذا حزنت عندما قبض على صدام!

Quote: Please read and review the article entitled, “ICRC to Visit Saddam Hussein”, that can be accessed on Crossnet. The link is https://crossnet.redcross.org/news/chapters/services/intl/031216_saddam_icrc.asp ICRC to Visit Saddam Hussein The American Red Cross has received criticism regarding the decision of the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit Saddam Hussein. Visiting detainees is a unique function of the Geneva-based International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which acts as an independent guardian of the Geneva Conventions. No other entity within the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including the American Red Cross, has that role or performs that function. The Geneva Conventions, which apply to all armed conflicts, require that all captured combatants or prisoners of war (POWs) be visited by the ICRC to help assure the world that their treatment is humane. For example, the ICRC visited the three American servicemen held in a Serbian prison during the Kosovo conflict and arranged for them to send messages to their families back home. During the Gulf War, the ICRC met with 55 U.S. POWs as well as POWs from the UK, France, Germany and Italy. Under humanitarian law, the ICRC talks with prisoners in private to discuss their treatment, to register them so their families and their government know where they are, and to give them the opportunity to write personal Red Cross Messages to their relatives. If there are any concerns that arise in the course of a visit, the ICRC will discuss them directly and confidentially with the detaining authorities only. The ICRC does not publicly discuss its findings, nor share confidential matters with other parts of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. All members of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, including the ICRC and the American Red Cross, are bound by certain fundamental principles. These principles include humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence and apply equally in times of war and in times of peace.