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The murder of the Spanish María Hernández, of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), in an attack in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, has joined thirteen other aid workers since 1990 as they carry out their humanitarian mission in different parts of the world.
Half of them lost their lives in Africa (three in Rwanda, one in Mozambique, another in Equatorial Guinea, one more in Morocco and María Hernández yesterday in Ethiopia), four others died in America (two in El Salvador , one in Colombia and one in Peru).
In Europe (Bosnia and Chechnya) two other Spanish aid workers died and the last, physiotherapist Lorena Enebral, belonging to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), was murdered in Afghanistan in 2017.
Most of the murdered Spanish aid workers were doctors, nurses or worked for health aid organizations.
– September 10, 1990: The Savior. Doctor Begoña García Arandigoyen, who was practicing in a medical post of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), in Santa Ana, was found dead after being kidnapped by a Salvadoran paramilitary organization.
– December 24, 1990: The Savior. Doctor Marta González Gómez, 29, died in El Salvador in an army attack on a camp of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN), where she was providing her services.
– May 29, 1995: Bosnia. 38-year-old doctor Mercedes Navarro Rodríguez died in Doctors of the World’s office in Mostar, when a man entered with a gun and started shooting, killing the aid worker and injuring several members of the group.
– November 20, 1996: Mozambique. Dr Inmaculada Vieira Fuentes, an aid worker with Medicus Mundi-Catalunya (MMC), dies of a gunshot allegedly fired by a Mozambican police officer while crossing Maputo. According to a report by Mozambican authorities, the vehicle was mistaken for that of a gang of car thieves.
– December 17, 1996: Chechnya. Murdered in Chechnya, Spanish humanitarian aid Fernanda Calado and five other humanitarian workers of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
– January 18, 1997: Rwanda.- They are assassinated in Ruhengeri by Hutu extremists Manuel Madrazo, doctor; María Flores (Flors) Sirera, nurse; Luis María Valtueña, photographer and logistician, all Spanish cooperators of the NGO Médecins du Monde.
– November 18, 1999: Spanish humanitarian aid Eguiluz Tellería, 24, from Bilbao (Vizcaya), and Colombian priest José Luiz Mazo, die falling into the Atrato River in Murindó (Colombia) when their boat is hit by a boat piloted by Jimmy Matutte Palma, paramilitary of the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC). Matute was sentenced in 2004 to 32 years in prison.
– July 1, 2003: Equatorial Guinea. Aid worker Ana Isabel Sánchez Torralba dies in Equatorial Guinea as a result of the shooting of a soldier against a public bus at a checkpoint, in an “incident” that Guinean authorities have described as “regrettable”.
– March 5, 2007: Peru. They find the body of Marcos Lucas Sesarego, 67, who arrived in Lima six months earlier and working as a volunteer in an AIDS shelter. Her alleged murderer, South African Fourie Stethanus Petrus, lived in the shelter and the motive was theft.
– April 4, 2008: Morocco. Murdered in the south of the country Manuel Leandro, a former Canarian cooperative who worked in the construction of seawater desalination plants powered by renewable energies.
– September 11, 2017: Spanish aid worker from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Lorena Enebral, is shot dead by an unidentified man in an organization’s medical center in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan. This attack led the ICRC to suspend its activities in the northeast of the country.
– June 25, 2021: Doctors Without Borders reports that Spanish humanitarian aid María Hernández and two other Ethiopian colleagues, all employees of this NGO, were killed on Thursday in an attack in Tigray, a war-ridden region of northern Ethiopia.
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