Fred Cuny. disaster relief expert. pioneer in modem humanitarian assistance. and American citizen. is now presumed by his family to have been murdered In Chechnya. He had vanished there some 5 months ago. along with a Russian translator. Galena Olelnik. and two Red Cross doctors. Andrel Sereda and Sergei Makarov. who had come with him. Their deaths are all the more tragic because they were in Chechnya not to help one side or another. but to assess the needs of innocent refugees. Chechen and Russian. driven from their homes by the conflict. The facts of this tragedy are not entirely clear.
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