Syrian Arab Red Crescent
Abbreviation | SARC |
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Formation | 1942 |
Type | Non Profit Organization |
Legal status | Foundation |
Purpose | Humanitarian |
Headquarters | Damascus |
Region served | Syria |
Website | www.sarc.sy |
The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) (
The organization is working in the Syrian civil war and is engaged in evacuation of people from war torn region to other places.[1] It is shifting people and militants who surrender and relocating them to other places. When Darayya surrendered to government forces, the militants were relocated by the Red Crescent.[2]
SARC volunteers and hospitals have been the targets of numerous attacks since the beginning of the Syrian civil war.[3][4][5][6][7][8] In 2016 a UN aid convoy composed mostly of SARC workers driving near Urum al-Kubra was bombed, killing at least 12 SARC drivers and destroying aid supplies in a warehouse.[9][10] According to the ICRC 20 civilians were also killed in the attack.[10] UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned the attack and temporarily suspended UN aid convoys after the attack.[9][10] A UN investigation carried out by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic found that the Syrian government deliberately carried out the attack on the aid convoy which they allege amounts to a potential war crime.[11]
See also
References
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "Darayya siege: Residents and fighters ready to evacuate Syrian town - BBC News". BBC News. 2016-08-26. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ "IFRC joins Syrian Arab Red Crescent in mourning death of volunteer in Al-Tabaqa". International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ AFP (2017-02-09). "Syria rebel fire kills three in Red Crescent centre: monitor". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ a b "US claims Russian warplanes bombed Syrian Arab Red Crescent aid convoy and warehouse". The Independent. 2016-09-20. Archived from the original on 2022-05-26. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ^ a b c Joe Sterling; Angela Dewan; Joshua Berlinger (20 September 2016). "UN chief calls convoy attackers in Syria 'cowards'". CNN. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-03-01.