Speech given by Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, 28 April 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

 

“The ICRC failed because it drew inexcusably false conclusions from perfectly valid observations. It failed as a humanitarian organization because it had lost its moral compass. This failure has become an intrinsic part of our institutional history.”

 

The full speech

 

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