Nicaragua

Certain humanitarian actions which have been successfully carried out by the Nicaraguan Red Cross demonstrate how the principles of the Red Cross can be respected under the most unfavourable circumstances. The National Society intervened in favour of the victims of the events which had taken place in that country by referring to Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions. We publish below information which we have recently received from that Society and we are pleased to draw attention, as we have done on several occasions, to the activities of National Red Cross Societies in favour of persons who have been detained in their own countries as a result of internal disturbances. This information consists of two reports which the President of the Nicaraguan Red Cross forwarded to the ICRC on November 3, 1959 and March 10, 1961 respectively }