Ensuring the future of independent humanitarian action

17-09-2004 Photo Collection

The ICRC's mandate to provide protection and assistance to people caught up in conflict remains as essential as ever, while its ability to do so depends on a deep and wide-reaching acceptance of its neutrality and independence.

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Following the signing of a ceasefire in Sri Lanka in 2002, both the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eleam (LTTE) requested that the ICRC monitor two crossing points between government and LTTE-held areas. The following year, the ICRC registered three million civilians crossing in both directions and 430,000 trucks. The prevention of misunderstandings about rules and procedures has contributed to the maintenance of confidence in the ceasefire.

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