![]() ![]() Towards a disability-inclusive IHL: ICRC views and recommendationsÄuring a series of regional consultations in 2022, which brought together persons with disabilities and armed forces, this former group shared some of their stories with us: deaf persons who had been shot from behind and killed because they were seemingly mistaken for an enemy and could not understand the military was coming a farmer and father of a child with an intellectual impairment who, during a major evacuation due to military operations, chose to evacuate his cow instead of his child, on the grounds that the cow was more valuable families who faced the impossible dilemma of either leaving all together, slowed down and risking attack because a family member with mobility restrictions could not take their assistive devices with them, or saving the rest of the family and leaving the loved one with a disability behind persons with disabilities interrupted during a workshop by hostilities and unable to hear the oral warnings to hide under the tables to keep safe. ![]()
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