caa a22 4500 38804196X CHVBK 20180307125025.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199806 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002086040009104X doi S002086040009104X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002086040009104X Jenatsch Thomas The ICRC as a humanitarian mediator in the Colombian conflict: Possibilities and limits [Elektronische Daten] [Thomas Jenatsch] Cartagena de Chairá, 15 June 1997: the five Russian helicopters churned up clouds of dust as they deposited their precious cargo —70 soldiers of the government army who had been defeated and captured by the guerrillas nine-and-a-half months earlier. The spectacular landing in the jungle hideout gave them their first taste of freedom and marked the end of an episode in the war which had humiliated the military high command and kept the whole country in suspense. Hence the rejoicing was all the greater as the 70 soldiers, who had been presumed dead, were finally reunited with their mothers in an emotional scene, and the whole of Colombia briefly savoured the sweet illusion that peace was just around the corner. In front of international observers and countless journalists, the guerrilla commanders completed the handover of the soldiers to the ICRC with a moving ceremony. Then the soldiers boarded the helicopters again. Accompanied by an ICRC delegate and a member of the National Reconciliation Commission, they were flown to the army base at nearby Larandia, where the military leadership gave them an official reception with a brass band and laid on a buffet meal. Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1998 International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 303-318 0020-8604 38:323<303 1998 38 RCE https://doi.org/10.1017/S002086040009104X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002086040009104X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jenatsch Thomas NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Review of the Red Cross Cambridge University Press 38/323(1998-06), 303-318 0020-8604 38:323<303 1998 38 RCE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge