Lucile Marbeau spent three weeks in Mariupol last April. As part of the
International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) team, she accompanied one of the civilian evacuation convoys.
She recounts the thousand obstacles encountered to ensure the safety of the evacuees.
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LE FIGARO. - The Battle of Mariupol lasted three months. Why was the evacuation of civilians so complex?
LUCILE MARBEAU. -
Establishing humanitarian corridors is extremely delicate, whatever the terrain of war.
In Syria as in Yemen, we had the same difficulties.
Far from being a theory, the truce must meet very concrete conditions: determine the geography of the ceasefire from point A to point B, establish the course, take into account the hazards.
"Information must flow from the staff to the checkpoint guard"
The main challenge is to ensure that the ceasefire order has gone through the whole chain of command.
Information must flow from the general staff to the guard of the checkpoint, and the situation, in…
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