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Publication: The News Minute
Date: July 5, 2014
URL: http://www.thenewsminute.com/news_sections/475
An international aid agency has said there were “very tense” moments for the Kerala nurses in Iraq and the Indian government has done a remarkable job of securing their safe passage home.
“The entire process was handled by India, we had nothing to do with it – what New Delhi has achieved is truly remarkable,” Sitara Jabeen of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told The News Minute. “This conflict is not like any other conflict – the situation is extremely dangerous bringing people to safety is truly remarkable,” said Jabeen, the ICRC’s point-person for the Middle East.
It may be recalled that over forty nurses from Kerala were stuck in a hospital in Tikrit from where they were shifted to a few places before reaching Erbil from where they are flying home tonight.
At one point it appeared that there was no contact with the nurses amidst reports that they were being held hostage or taken from point to point to tend to the wounded. “How it happened and what happened is not more important than the fact that the nurses are safe – all that is what every country does to ensure the safety of its citizens,” the ICRC official said.
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