THE International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) marked on February 17 its 160th year of working to bring relief to millions of people adversely affected by armed conflict.

Technological advances have changed warfare drastically since 1863. But one thing has remained sadly consistent: the level of suffering that civilians caught in conflict were made to endure. The ICRC's co-founder, Henri Dunant, wrote this 160 years ago, after witnessing the horrors of combat:

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