The ‘War crimes and politics of terror in Chechnya 1994-2004’ case study describes the constraints, questions and dilemmas experienced by MSF while speaking out during the two Russian-Chechen wars and the following years of the so-called ‘normalization’.

Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2004

Pont du Ruzizi, Bukavu. Arrivee des refugies rwandais. Les refugies attendent du cote rwandais de pouvoir traverser le point et rejoindre le Zaire ou des camions les emmeneront aux camps situes aux alentours de Bukavu.

MSF Speaking Out

Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire and Tanzania 1994-1995

The 'Rwandan Refugee Camps in Zaire -Tanzania 1994-1995' case study describes the constraints, questions and dilemmas met by MSF when confronted with ‘refugee leaders” tight control over refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania. Some of those camps were transformed into rear basis from which they planned to re-conquer Rwanda and complete the genocide of Tutsi via a massive diversion of aid, violence, propaganda and threats against refugees wishing to repatriate.
Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2004

At the village of Biaro. The Zairian Red Cross are present (brought here by the rebels of Kabila, who want to make sure the bodies are burried as fast as possible, fearing typhus epidemic) and make a count of all the orphans: above 1000 children. They are lined up along the railway tracks.Tens of thousands of Rwandan Hutu refugees, (they all come from the refugee camps of Goma and Bukavu), fleeing the Zairian rebels of Laurent- Desire Kabila, for the last 5 months, hiding in the bush, exhausted, famished, and all waiting to return home, to Rwanda, are today in the midst of a new nightmare. They had taken residence in camps in 1994, when they fled their country in fear of retribution for the massacres of hundreds of thousands of Rwandan Tutsi by Hutu extremists. The presence of Hutu nettled Zairian Tutsi, who joined forces with Kabila, a longtime Mobutu foe, and launched the insurgency. The fighting forced most of the Rwandan refugees to go home in Autumn 96, but about 350.000 of them have been marooned in tough eastern Zaire, fighting terrain. They are dying at an alarming rate. They need food, water ans safe passage home. But no one has made the refugees a priority. The Zairian rebels of Kabila who seized Kisangani, Zaire'sthird city, had ordered the Rwandan Hutu Refugees, who were in this region's camps, to move back south.

MSF Speaking Out

The Hunting and Killing of Rwandan Refugees in Zaire-Congo: 1996-1997

The ‘Hunting and killings of the Rwandan refugee in Zaire/Congo’ case study describes the constraints and dilemmas faced by Médecins Sans Frontières’ teams in 1996 and 1997 when trying to bring assistance to the Rwandan refugees in Eastern Zaire, after their camps had been attacked by rebel forces supported by the Rwandan army. Speaking Out Case Studies - 1 Jan 2004

Iran

Specialised equipment and teams sent to treat post-quake 'crush' victims

MSF, together with the International Society of Nephrology (ISN), is providing medical care for "crush syndrome" earthquake victims. A team of five people is already on the ground and a flight carrying six additional dialysis machines left Ostende Tuesday evening. Project Update - 30 Dec 2003

Nepal

Crisis in Nepal: Destruction before construction

For the last few months, Jono Lineen has been trying to set up one of MSF's health programmes in western Nepal, where the government and Maoist rebels are fighting a brutal civil war. Below he describes his struggle to negotiate with young revolutionaries bent on restructuring society. Project Update - 29 Dec 2003

Malaria

Amid the death, new hope

From education to vaccines, a drive to halt malaria takes off. This report concludes a Boston Globe series, begun on Jan. 26, on world health challenges and the solutions that are within reach. Project Update - 28 Dec 2003

Iran

MSF rushes emergency relief teams and materials to Iran

Yesterday, Friday December 26, an MSF team carried out a rapid evaluation in the affected region in Bam together with the Iranian Red Crescent. The team is on the spot with first aid material. Ten tons of additional supplies are leaving by plane today. Press Release - 27 Dec 2003

HIV/AIDS

Offering lessons for treating HIV/AIDS to Pepfar

MSF statement on Pepfar: Testimony submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services for the meeting of the International Subcommittee of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS Project Update - 16 Dec 2003

Access to medicines

Don't trade away health in the FTAA

"No doctor should be faced with turning away patients who can't afford treatment because trade negotiators extended monopolies on life-saving medicines. Human lives must not be bargained over like cars or toys," said an MSF spokesperson.

Regional and bilateral trade agreements must not erode patient rights. Press Release - 19 Nov 2003

Italy

Refugee deaths at Lampedusa highlight grave political failures

Of 24 refugess, 13 did not survive the crossing. The remaining 11 passengers were transported first to the Lampedusa Temporary Detention Centre (TDC) where MSF offers medical care, but due to their wretched state, the majority had to be subsequently transferred to the intensive care unit of Palermo hospital. Press Release - 23 Oct 2003

Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.

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War crimes and politics of terror in Chechnya 1994-2004