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Genocidal Doctors

by | Jan 27, 2011 | Afri, Care, Death, Doc, Health, Hispanic, History, Human Rights, Ideas, Middle-East, Now, Politics, Quotes, Racism, Roma, Sci/Nat, Shoah, Time, Wars

Armenia, Argentina, Bosnia, Croatia, Rwanda…
… There have been various attempts in recent years to humanize doctors by changing the medical curriculum, by exposing students and young doctors to great non-scientific novels, poetry and plays, by making psychology and bioethics compulsory in the preclinical years and by ensuring that paediatrics and psychiatry are tested by compulsory questions and long or short cases in the final examinations. However, the specialties of the genocidal doctors described above were as follows: Sindikubwabo was a pediatrician; Karadzic, who was a member of a literary circle and had studied poetry in a post-graduate program at Columbia University, New York, was a psychiatrist, and Sakir was professor of legal (ethical) medicine.
Religious beliefs did not prevent, and may have encouraged, genocide. In Argentina the kilers and the kiled were mostly Roman Catholic; in Turkey Moslems kiled Armenians; and in former Yugoslavia Greek Orthodox Serbs, Roman Catholic Croats and Bosnian Moslems killed each other.

How then can genocide by prevented? Priority should be given to acceptance, implementation and teaching of international laws of humanity. Since July 1998 the Rome statute which created a permanent International Criminal Court has been ratified by more than sixty countries,even if opposed by the USA, Iraq and Libya.

In November 1998 the British Law Lords decided that former government leaders may be extradited to stand trial for crimes against humanity. Another step would be some strengthening of internationalplansto ensure thathistorybooks in schols, coleges and universities reveal unsavoury facts about the past
and do not peddle xenophobia and nationalist hate by a monstrous distortion of the truth for ideological purposes posing as serious historical analysis. National laws should prohibit denial of genocide.

In the former Soviet Union the Kazan cathedral in Leningrad was deconsecrated to house a Museum of Atheism in which the histories of the religions of the world were detailed together with their cruelties. Alas, in today’s St. Petersburg this cathedral has been reconsecrated and the museum is now only of religion, displaying only Russian Church Art. Perhaps just as all Bavarian school children are taken to see the Dachau concentration camp, educational authorities should organize visits to genocide museums so that’if it ever was admitted… that genocide did take place… then it must follow that the… ideology that was the ultimate cause of that genocide is false, inhuman and fit only for the dustbin of history’
Dr. Jeremy Hugh Baron DM, FRCP, FRCPG, FRCS

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