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19-08-2008  Photo Collection  
Georgia/Russian Federation conflict: a selection of photos - 1
The following selection of photographs can be downloaded at high resolution.

©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00318
ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger visiting people who fled the armed conflict between Georgia and Russia and are sheltered at a collective centre in Tbilisi..17.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00330
Alagir North Ossetia, Russia. A boy waits outside a bus that will return him to South Ossetia, along with other refugees who crossed into North Ossetia to escape the fighting between Georgia and Russia. 18.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00328
Alagir North Ossetia, Russia. Two women ponder their future as they wait on a bus that will return them from North Ossetia, where they found refuge during the fighting in Georgia, to their homes in South Ossetia. 18.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00312
Tbilisi, Georgia. Locals help unload the relief goods airlifted to Tbilisi by the ICRC for people fleeing the conflict and sheltered at a collective centre.16.08.08


©Norwegian Red Cross/O. Saltbones/ge-e-00317
Tbilisi. The ICRC is providing water and sanitation to large numbers of displaced people who have sought refuge in Tbilisi. Two young boys fill their jugs at an ICRC water point in front of a large building in the city.15.08.08


©Norwegian Red Cross/O. Saltbones/ge-e-00317
Tblisi. Hundreds of people displaced by the hostilities in Georgia have sought refuge in the capital. The ICRC is providing water and sanitation in this huge rundown building, the former headquarters for the ex-Soviet army for the south Caucasus.15.08.08


©ICRC/J. Barry/ge-e-00313
Collective centre at the Plant Protection Institute, Tbilisi. To escape the shelling of their village, Lali and Paata and their two sons fled to Tbilisi with nothing but the clothes on their backs. They are living in another displaced person's room until they receive some supplies.


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ref ge-e-00305
Tbilisi, Georgia: Norwegian mobile field hospital arriving by air in Tbilisi Airport. 14.08.08



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©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00329
ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger listening to civilians housed at a collective centre in Tbilisi after fleeing the fighting in Georgia..17.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00322
Alagir North Ossetia, Russia. Some of the 600 people who found refuge in a children’s camp in North Ossetia when fighting broke out in Georgia prepare for a bus trip back home to South Ossetia. .18.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00309
With the outbreak of the conflict, the ICRC set up an air bridge from its logistics centre in Amman, Jordan, bringing in a total of 437 metric tonnes of relief goods.16.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00307
Tbilisi, Georgia. Georgians search for latest news of the conflict as an ICRC pickup unloads aid at a shelter for people fleeing the fighting. 15.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00308
Tbilisi, Georgia. Tsiuri and her son Shmagi fled the fighting in Gori and found shelter at a collective centre.15.08.08


©ICRC/J.Barry/ge-e-00314
Collective centre at the Plant Protection Institute, Tbilisi. Displaced families exchange tales of their escape and loss as they wait for a distribution of ICRC blankets, hygiene kits, buckets, kitchen sets and jerry cans. 15.08.08


©ICRC/J. Björgvinsson/ge-e-00306
Tbilisi, Georgia: A woman who has fled the conflict resting in an abandoned office building. 15.08.08


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