Red Crescent stops work in Baghdad after kidnap
BAGHDAD - Iraqi Red Crescent aid workers suspended work in war-torn Baghdad on Monday after two dozen of their colleagues fell victim to the latest mass kidnap to shock a city plagued by sectarian violence.
“Only in Baghdad have we stopped, to make more pressure to free those who have been kidnapped,” the Iraqi Red Crescent’s secretary general Mazen Abdallah told AFP one day after the abductions.
“We are the only organisation working in all Iraq. We don’t want to stop,” he added, emphasising that the closure applied only to the Red Crescent’s health and relief workers in the capital.
In addition to the main branch targeted in the kidnapping, the Iraqi Red Crescent has closed another 40 subsidiary offices in Baghdad, affecting more than 600 staff, a large proportion of them security guards, Abdallah said.
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“Only in Baghdad have we stopped, to make more pressure to free those who have been kidnapped,” the Iraqi Red Crescent’s secretary general Mazen Abdallah told AFP one day after the abductions.
“We are the only organisation working in all Iraq. We don’t want to stop,” he added, emphasising that the closure applied only to the Red Crescent’s health and relief workers in the capital.
In addition to the main branch targeted in the kidnapping, the Iraqi Red Crescent has closed another 40 subsidiary offices in Baghdad, affecting more than 600 staff, a large proportion of them security guards, Abdallah said.
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