Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Weight of the Geneva Convention

For the next seven hours, I amputated several limbs, removed shrapnel, and sewed up gashes. It turned out I was the only person with medical training left in the hospital. Everyone else had fled. The hospital was out of commission - the work of the townspeople destroyed in seconds. The building had operated for only 3 weeks, and Zulai's white flag with the red cross lay in tatters under the rubble. So much for the protection of the Geneva convention. All that flag had done was to signal to the Russians where to bomb.

Chapter 6; The hospital opens
The First War
The Oath: A surgeon under fire
-Khassan Baiev

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