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Swiss Pierre Kraehenbuehl, director of operations of the International Committee of the Red Cross, ICRC, informs journalists about the humanitatiran situation in Sri Lanka at the ICRC headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Tuesday, April 21, 2009. As fighting rages in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is warning that conflict parties must take immediate action to prevent further mass casualties among civilians. The ICRC is extremely worried about tens of thousands of civilians, including women, children and elderly people, many of them wounded or sick, who are trapped in the rapidly shrinking area along the coast that had been declared a "no-fire zone" by the government. (KEYSTONE/Salvatore Di Nolfi)