Reference :
V-P-PG-E-00045
Date :
23/01/2014
Caption :
Southern Highlands Province, Kagua Erave District. The ICRC and the Papua New Guinea Red Cross Society distribute aid to 2'000 people displaced by clan fighting.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
An outbreak of clan fighting between the Wambea and the Kombia clans in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea last October forced many families to flee their homes. Some, like Helen (right on the photo), were badly injured and needed help from the ICRC to survive.
ICRC website, News release 14/13, 24.01.2014
Excerpt:
Recent inter-communal violence in the Kagua-Erave area has left at least 40 people dead and 30 wounded.
The aid distributed today will help ensure the displaced families are able to meet their basic needs. "Our people have been desperate for assistance," said Justin Mapi, a leader of one of the displaced clans. "This is the only help we have received since the fighting began. We have lost everything."
Following an outbreak of violence between the Wambea and Kombia clans in late 2013, the ICRC donated medical supplies to Kagua Health Centre and Sumbura Aid Post, as well as directly to the clans, to help treat the wounded. The ICRC also took one woman wounded in a grenade attack to Mount Hagen Provincial Hospital.
"We are particularly concerned about access to health-care facilities for people injured in clan fighting across the Highlands," said Gauthier Lefèvre, head of the ICRC’s mission in Papua New Guinea. "Many wounded people are afraid to travel to health centres for fear of attack by enemy fighters. A number of health centres in the area have been destroyed or abandoned after years of fighting, and appropriate care is often only available in provincial capitals far removed from the site of clashes."...
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
4000x3000
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
