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Jacques de Maio, Head of Asia Operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, informs journalists about the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka, during a press conference at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Hundreds of people have been killed and scores of wounded are overwhelming understaffed and ill-equipped medical facilities in Sri Lanka's nothern Vanni region, following intensified figthing between the Sri Lanka Security Forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). (KEYSTONE/Salvatore Di Nolfi)