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Marcel Junod (1904-1961): the Red Cross doctor who personified "the spirit of the thing"

©ICRC/Smith, Hylander/ref. HIST-01943
1936

Both sides had signed up to the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning the use of poison gas. However, Italy's use of liquid mustard gas helped to decimate Ethiopian forces and caused terrible suffering among the Emperor's barefoot warriors.

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