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Surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross CHRIS GIANNOU (YAW-new)

Surgeon for the International Committee of the Red Cross CHRIS GIANNOU (YAW-new). For almost 15 years he has been a surgeon in war torn parts of the world in Burundi, Somalia, and in a Palestinian Refugee Camp. As such he has seen the devastation on human beings from landmines GIANNOU is currently leading the Red Cross's campaign for a ban on anti-personnel landmines worldwide, which kill or injure hundreds of civilians each week. (GIANNOU has been on the show a number of times. He wrote a memoir in 1994 about his work in the refugee camp, "Besieged: A Doctor's Story of Life and Death in Beirut." (Published by Olive Branch

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