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Red Cross

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                                                 RED CROSS          The Red Cross came into being at the initiative of a man named Henry Dunant, who helped wounded soldiers at the battle of Solferino in 1859 and then lobbied political leaders to take more action to protect war victims. His two main ideas were for a treaty that would oblige armies to care of all wounded soldiers and for the creation of national societies that would help the military medical services .                                                                   Dunant put down his ideas in a campaigning book, A Souvenir of Solferino, published in 1862. The Public Welfare Committee in his home town of Geneva took them up and formed a working group . In August 1864, delegates from a dozen countries adopted the first Geneva Convention, which put a legal framework around these decisions and made it compulsory for armies to care for all wounded soldiers, whatever

Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

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  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)                                                                                             (LTTE  Flag)                            LTTE Stands for  Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam . The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were a separatist militant group centered in northern Sri Lanka. This violent separatist movement in Sri Lanka aimed to unite northern and eastern Sri Lanka to form an independent Tamil state. It was started in May 1976 by Vellupillai Prabhakaran .                                                                                               (Prabhakaran)                Since Sri Lanka’s independence from Britain in 1948, the Tamil minority has felt increasingly marginalised and politically disenfranchised. In that very year, Solomon Bandaranayake, the country’s first prime minister, made Sinhala, which is spoken by the majority of Sri Lankans, the official language . After 1948, the Tamils also became the targets of nu

After Indian Prime minister dead the genocide in all over India

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  After Indian Prime minister dead the genocide in all over India                                     The anti-Sikh massacre of 1984 refers to a series of organised pogroms against members of the Sikh community across India by anti-Sikh mobs in response to the assassination of then prime minister (PM) Indira Gandhi by her Sikh bodyguards at her residence.         At about 9:20 a.m. Indian Standard Time, on 31 October 1984, Gandhi was on her way to be interviewed by British actor  Peter Ustinov  who was filming a documentary for  Irish television . She was wearing a saffron  saree  with a black border, and accompanied by constable Narayan Singh, personal security officer Rameshwar Dayal and personal secretary,  R. K. Dhawan . [5]  She was walking through the garden of the Prime Minister's Residence at No. 1 Safdarjung Road in New Delhi towards the neighboring 1 Akbar Road office.               Gandhi passed a  wicket gate  guarded by Satwant and Beant Singh, and the two men op