Doctors without morals
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under the guise of "helping".
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/11/dershowitz-doctors-without-
borders-really-is-doctors-without-morals/
Dershowitz: Doctors Without Borders Really Is Doctors Without
Morals
International law experts are blasting Doctors Without Borders
for forcibly removing civilian patients from the aid groups
Kunduz, Afghanistan, hospital and replacing them with wounded
Taliban fighters when the city fell to the rebel control in late
September.
Alan Dershowitz, an acclaimed Harvard constitutional lawyer and
authority in international law, said that he was not surprised
that the group, known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, favored
Taliban fighters over civilian patients, telling The Daily
Caller News Foundation in an interview that he regards Doctors
Without Borders as Doctors Without Morals.
Dershowitz charged the group with having a long history of anti-
Western political stances and of not being neutral. He says MSF
is a heavily ideological organization that often favors radical
groups over Western democracies and is highly politicized.
The lawyer said the doctors also were hypocritical. What they
violate is their own stated mandate and that is of taking no
political ideological position and treating all people in need
of medical care equally. Its just not what they do.
The MSFs hospital in Kunduz came to international attention
when it suffered mass casualties on Oct. 3 after a U.S. Air
Force gunship attacked and destroyed the trauma center, which
served 22,000 patients in 2014. The group charged the U.S.
attack on the compound constituted a war crime. Thirty people
died in the attack.
Five different investigations are currently underway, and
President Obama has promised compensation to the victims
families.
Yet MSF itself may have violated a whole host of humanitarian
laws by its own admission that Kunduz hospital administrators
agreed to discharge Afghan civilian patients at the behest of
Taliban officials and replace them with wounded rebel soldiers.
The acknowledgement was buried inside a Nov. 5 interim report
released by MSF that traced the internal activities at their
hospital leading up to the attack.
MSF disclosed in its report that on Sept. 28, the day the city
fell to rebels, hospital administrators met with a Taliban
representative to discuss the need to free beds for other
critical patients due to the ongoing fighting, and therefore for
some patients to be discharged.
On Sept. 30, MSF passively reported that a large number of
patients discharged from the hospital, including some against
medical advice. It is unclear whether some of these patients
discharged themselves due to the discussion to free some beds
between MSF and the Taliban representative.
At one point during the Taliban occupation, the group conceded
in its report that nearly half of the 140 beds at the hospital
were occupied by Taliban fighters.
MSF never stated in its report that it protested, resisted or
objected to the Taliban request.
The medical group has not publicly denounced the Taliban since
Kunduz was freed of Taliban rule in early October. Nor did it
say anything about the rebel demands in an hour-long press
conference held by the group on Nov. 5 when it released its
report. MFS did not respond to a DCNF request to discuss the
issue.
MSF has never shirked from attacking those which it regards as
wrongdoers. In its USA filing with the Internal Revenue Service
for 2014, the group indicated it is more than a medical service
organization and frequently speaks out publicly when they see
wrongdoing.
As part of its founding principles, MSF stands ever ready to
speak out publicly on a given issue should the situation call
for it, it stated in its IRS Form 990 filing.
The removal of civilian patients for soldiers violates a number
of long-held provisions of the Geneva Convention and
International Humanitarian Law. Both internationally-sanctioned
protocols require that administrators to protect non-combatants
who are patients at medical clinics and hospitals in war zones.
In its IRS filing, MFS does say it frequently serves as an
advocate for those who are neglected, in this case, Afghan
civilian patients. It says it will speak out when a certain
group is being neglected, that military or political efforts are
causing severe medical consequences.
The groups silence troubles David Rivkin, a partner at the
Washington, D.C. lawyer firm of BakerHostetler who has practiced
before the International Criminal Tribunal and the International
Court of Justice on international humanitarian law and on the
laws of war.
The fact that they did so without any protest certainly does
mean that it leaves a question mark about what they were up to,
he told TheDCNF in an interview.
He told TheDCNF he considered the MFS action at the Kunduz
hospital to be unprecedented, saying the effect of its actions
were to transform a civilian hospital into a military hospital.
Ken Isaacs, a vice president for the Christian relief
organization Samaritans Purse, said the situation appeared
highly irregular. The group founded by Franklin Graham
currently operates a hospital in war-torn South Sudan and
operated a second hospital there for 10 years. It also ran a
hospital in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006.
I have not heard of a precedent like it. But I would say its
highly irregular. Its very unfortunate, he told TheDCNF in an
interview.
If you want to help, contribute to the medical group that is on the ground in Madaya and other Syrian villages where the starvation is happening - the volunteer group we know as 'Doctors Without Borders'.
http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
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Monday 11 January 2016 13.08 EST
Trucks from aid convoy enter besieged Syrian town of Madaya
Médecins Sans Frontières says boy and four men died of starvation in Madaya on Sunday
They're a bunch of fucking activists pushing leftwing bullshithttp://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
_________________________________
Monday 11 January 2016 13.08 EST
Trucks from aid convoy enter besieged Syrian town of Madaya
Médecins Sans Frontières says boy and four men died of starvation in Madaya on Sunday
under the guise of "helping".
http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/11/dershowitz-doctors-without-
borders-really-is-doctors-without-morals/
Dershowitz: Doctors Without Borders Really Is Doctors Without
Morals
International law experts are blasting Doctors Without Borders
for forcibly removing civilian patients from the aid groups
Kunduz, Afghanistan, hospital and replacing them with wounded
Taliban fighters when the city fell to the rebel control in late
September.
Alan Dershowitz, an acclaimed Harvard constitutional lawyer and
authority in international law, said that he was not surprised
that the group, known as Medecins Sans Frontieres, favored
Taliban fighters over civilian patients, telling The Daily
Caller News Foundation in an interview that he regards Doctors
Without Borders as Doctors Without Morals.
Dershowitz charged the group with having a long history of anti-
Western political stances and of not being neutral. He says MSF
is a heavily ideological organization that often favors radical
groups over Western democracies and is highly politicized.
The lawyer said the doctors also were hypocritical. What they
violate is their own stated mandate and that is of taking no
political ideological position and treating all people in need
of medical care equally. Its just not what they do.
The MSFs hospital in Kunduz came to international attention
when it suffered mass casualties on Oct. 3 after a U.S. Air
Force gunship attacked and destroyed the trauma center, which
served 22,000 patients in 2014. The group charged the U.S.
attack on the compound constituted a war crime. Thirty people
died in the attack.
Five different investigations are currently underway, and
President Obama has promised compensation to the victims
families.
Yet MSF itself may have violated a whole host of humanitarian
laws by its own admission that Kunduz hospital administrators
agreed to discharge Afghan civilian patients at the behest of
Taliban officials and replace them with wounded rebel soldiers.
The acknowledgement was buried inside a Nov. 5 interim report
released by MSF that traced the internal activities at their
hospital leading up to the attack.
MSF disclosed in its report that on Sept. 28, the day the city
fell to rebels, hospital administrators met with a Taliban
representative to discuss the need to free beds for other
critical patients due to the ongoing fighting, and therefore for
some patients to be discharged.
On Sept. 30, MSF passively reported that a large number of
patients discharged from the hospital, including some against
medical advice. It is unclear whether some of these patients
discharged themselves due to the discussion to free some beds
between MSF and the Taliban representative.
At one point during the Taliban occupation, the group conceded
in its report that nearly half of the 140 beds at the hospital
were occupied by Taliban fighters.
MSF never stated in its report that it protested, resisted or
objected to the Taliban request.
The medical group has not publicly denounced the Taliban since
Kunduz was freed of Taliban rule in early October. Nor did it
say anything about the rebel demands in an hour-long press
conference held by the group on Nov. 5 when it released its
report. MFS did not respond to a DCNF request to discuss the
issue.
MSF has never shirked from attacking those which it regards as
wrongdoers. In its USA filing with the Internal Revenue Service
for 2014, the group indicated it is more than a medical service
organization and frequently speaks out publicly when they see
wrongdoing.
As part of its founding principles, MSF stands ever ready to
speak out publicly on a given issue should the situation call
for it, it stated in its IRS Form 990 filing.
The removal of civilian patients for soldiers violates a number
of long-held provisions of the Geneva Convention and
International Humanitarian Law. Both internationally-sanctioned
protocols require that administrators to protect non-combatants
who are patients at medical clinics and hospitals in war zones.
In its IRS filing, MFS does say it frequently serves as an
advocate for those who are neglected, in this case, Afghan
civilian patients. It says it will speak out when a certain
group is being neglected, that military or political efforts are
causing severe medical consequences.
The groups silence troubles David Rivkin, a partner at the
Washington, D.C. lawyer firm of BakerHostetler who has practiced
before the International Criminal Tribunal and the International
Court of Justice on international humanitarian law and on the
laws of war.
The fact that they did so without any protest certainly does
mean that it leaves a question mark about what they were up to,
he told TheDCNF in an interview.
He told TheDCNF he considered the MFS action at the Kunduz
hospital to be unprecedented, saying the effect of its actions
were to transform a civilian hospital into a military hospital.
Ken Isaacs, a vice president for the Christian relief
organization Samaritans Purse, said the situation appeared
highly irregular. The group founded by Franklin Graham
currently operates a hospital in war-torn South Sudan and
operated a second hospital there for 10 years. It also ran a
hospital in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2006.
I have not heard of a precedent like it. But I would say its
highly irregular. Its very unfortunate, he told TheDCNF in an
interview.