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unusual facts about humanitarian relief



Mission creep

Begun in late 1992 as a U.S. humanitarian relief operation in the final months of the George H. W. Bush administration, the intervention was converted to a U.N. operation on June 4, 1993.


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Air Combat Command

Provide Promise offered humanitarian relief airlift support to the city of Sarajevo, while Deny Flight enforced the "no-fly" zone against Serb air attacks on Bosnian civilians.

Eric O'Neill

In December 2008, O'Neill left DLA Piper and accepted a position as General Counsel of Global Communities, formerly CHF International, a global humanitarian relief non-profit organization.

Good Samaritan Children's Home

In the mid 1980s the Dutch relief organisation Stichting Hulp Oost-Europa delivered a large amount of humanitarian relief to many Ukrainian state orphanages.

John D. Altenburg

As the Staff Judge Advocate, XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg he deployed to south Florida in 1992 for humanitarian relief operations after Hurricane Andrew.

No. 37 Squadron RAAF

In November, the squadron deployed to the Philippines to participate in humanitarian relief operations in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan.

Royal Australian Regiment

The Australian commitment, known as Operation Solace, saw 1 RAR deployed for 17 weeks to a 17,000 square kilometres Humanitarian Relief Sector (HRS) centred on the township of Baidoa.

Show of force

Operation Poomalai, on 4 June 1987, the Indian Air Force mounted a mercy mission to airdrop humanitarian relief supplies over the besieged town of Jaffna in Sri Lanka during the Sri Lankan Civil War.