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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: KLP who wrote (131905)5/6/2004 7:31:38 PM
From: Alastair McIntosh  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
You asked Has anyone one seen the actual International Red Cross communications that were supposedly sent

The reports are not made public. I saw an interview of a senior ICRC person on CNN. She stated that any issues were first discussed with prison authorities with a follow-up report to Bremer's office.

icrc.org

The purpose of the ICRC visits

First, what they do NOT seek to achieve: the liberation of prisoners (other than particular individual cases, on strict medical or other humanitarian grounds).
The standard ICRC procedures, which are made clear with the detaining authorities prior to the visits, include registration of the prisoners; an overview of all facilities used by, or intended for, them; a private talk with any or all of them, to discuss any problems they might have over their treatment or conditions; the provision of standard forms for writing a brief message to their families (which after approval by the detaining authorities will be delivered by the ICRC, insofar as this is possible). If the prisoners agree, their problems are taken up with the authorities immediately, with the aim of trying to solve them.

The reports written by the ICRC after each visit are given to the detaining authorities and are not intended for publication - the point being that detention problems are best solved through constructive dialogue based on mutual confidence, rather than in the glare of publicity which inevitably carries the risk of politicizing the issues. This is why the ICRC will not comment publicly on such issues as possible problems concerning the transportation of prisoners or their conditions of detention.
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