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ICRC understands but sold out anyway. Big bucks explains why. Doing so exceeds prostitution shamelessness. Selling bodies is one thing. Souls, honor, morals, ethics, and principles are quite others. It's especially so when human lives and welfare are at stake.
ICRC's claimed humanitarian mission is cover. What's involved is money, special privileges derived, and connections to people in high places.
Benefitting this way is loathsome and contemptible. Operations profiting from human misery have no place in society.
ICRC's 2011 annual report reveals what's at stake. Contributors donate hundreds of millions of dollars. Donor types break down as follows:
Governments provide 82.34% of funding. The European Commission donates another 9.17%. National Societies give 4.71%. Private sources contribute 2.30%. Others make up the remaining 1+%.
Twenty major 2011 donors were listed. They're all countries or related to them. Except for Japan and Australia. They're all Western.
Major contributors included:
America - $241 million
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