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Kurds receive hot tea from Italian Red Cross volunteers November 17 outside Rome's Celio military hospital, where Kurdish guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan is believed to be held after his arrest. A declaration
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Red Cross volunteers inside a military camp carry a Kurdish woman immigrant to an ambulance for medical treatment in Frejus, February 21, 2001. France began handing out eight-day safe conduct documents to
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Kurdish Iraqi refugees wave as the first bus carrying 41 refugees leaves the Red Cross camp at Sangatte in France for England on December 5, 2002. Britain is to take in a
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