The Moral Norm, the Law, and the Limits of Protection for Wartime Medical Units

Neve Gordon
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Based on ninety-nine interviews carried out with health professionals, this chapter briefly describes how the Syrian government transformed medical units into strategic targets. It then turns to discuss the legal advocacy strategy used by human rights and humanitarian organizations, claiming that while the law provides medical units with a series of protections, it also introduces crucial exceptions, setting out conditions under which warring parties can legally unleash violence against health facilities and staff. Even as accountability for the violation of international humanitarian law has been the primary rallying cry for NGOs seeking justice in Syria, the chapter argues that invoking the law to seek relief from violence is not necessarily the best strategy since the law itself sows doubt on the validity and solidity of the moral injunction to protect medical units.
战时医疗单位的道德规范、法律与保护限度
基于对卫生专业人员的99次访谈,本章简要描述了叙利亚政府如何将医疗单位转变为战略目标。然后,它转而讨论人权和人道主义组织使用的法律宣传战略,声称虽然法律为医疗单位提供了一系列保护,但它也引入了重要的例外情况,规定了交战各方可以合法地对卫生设施和工作人员发动暴力的条件。尽管对违反国际人道主义法的行为负责一直是非政府组织在叙利亚寻求正义的主要口号,但本章认为,援引法律寻求暴力救济不一定是最好的策略,因为法律本身就对保护医疗单位的道德禁令的有效性和可靠性产生了怀疑。
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