Militants hold Red Cross workers for seven hours in east Ukraine

[okaawhatever]

Source: Reuters

(Reuters) - Pro-Russian militants held eight Ukrainian and one Swiss Red Cross workers hostage for seven hours in the rebel eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk, beating one before freeing them early on Saturday, a Red Cross official said.

A spokesman for the self-styled "Donetsk People's Republic", which is holding a referendum on Sunday on breaking with Kiev, said the workers had been detained on Friday evening by rebel activists on suspicion of espionage.

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Jacques Barberis, deputy head of the International Red Cross mission in Ukraine and a Swiss national, said that he was in the group of nine volunteers from Donetsk and Kiev arrested in the Red Cross building in Donetsk.

Barberis said one person was beaten by militants.

"I can confirm one (person) was beaten, he is now at home ... others are well," he told Reuters by phone.

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[Duckhunter935]

1. they have also stolen

all of the medical supplies this group had with them. Nothing like abducting and beating Red Cross workers. Are the Government forces doing this? I suspect not.

[okaawhatever]

2. I didn't read about that. Thanks for the info. The pro-Russian forces are quite advanced in their

skill sets to be amateurs.

[Duckhunter935]

4. here

The Red Cross official gave no further details, though the internet newspaper Novosti Donbassa said a Frenchman had been among seven held by activists who entered the Red Cross building in Donetsk. There was no confirmation of this.

"They were released at two o'clock. One had been heavily beaten," Red Cross official Irina Tsaryuk told Reuters. He was now in hospital. Red Cross headquarters in Geneva said simply that there had been "some kind of incident last night".

Novosti Donbassa said the hostage takers had also seized large stores of medicine from the Donetsk office.

The Red Cross website said medication had been delivered on May 7 to Donetsk head office for distribution in the region, where there has been heavy fighting in recent days between pro-Russian militants and Ukrainian security forces.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/10/red-cross-hostage-donetsk_n_5300030.html

As some would say here just some nice boys trying to help, as the Red Cross must be part of the Nazi fascists.

[okaawhatever]

5. thanks, nt

[joshcryer]

3. Just a quick ID check.

[go west young man]

6. This is terrible.....

but not surprising as we have used doctors, NGO's and media organizations to gather information previously. It's common knowledge the US government infiltrates and uses organizations. Look at the poor doctor in Pakistan who is now in prison for helping to find Bin Laden. These things have additional consequences for the future....sadly.