Photo exhibition: War, humanitarian action: lessons of history opened in Chisinau

Chisinau, 14 September /MOLDPRES/ – A photo exhibition under the title "War and humanitarian action: the lessons of history" was opened at the National History Museum (MNIM) of Moldova today.

The exhibition includes 50 images from the Red Cross International Committee photo archives, TASS News Agency, State Central State History Museum of Russia and the host institution.

At the event, the director of the MNIM, Eugen Sava mentioned that the photographs exhibited were documentary testimonies of tragic moments that marked the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: The Russian – Turkish War of 1877 – 1878, the Hispanic-American War of 1898 , World War I, the Greek – Turkish War of 1919 – 1922, the Second World War.

Consequently, the deputy head of the Regional Delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross to the Russian Federation, Belarus and Moldova, Gauthier Lefevre, said that the pictures of the exhibition show not only cruelty, brutality, pain and suffering, inherent parts of any war, but in particular, examples of genuine humanitarian, compassionate and sacrificial actions shown by the employees of that organization and the volunteers of the entire Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement to alleviate the suffering of the most vulnerable people.

Attending the event, Andrei Chistol, State Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research, stressed that the exhibition was a lesson of history for those who wanted to know what had happened in those wars.

The exhibition will be open until 14 October.

(Reporter N. Roibu, editor M. Jantovan)