Groningen Centre for Health Law

This moment is devastating - but it is also clarifying. It is a reminder that global health cannot rest on the whims of a single government. Our students will be the ones to build a more robust future for global health law, one that is not beholden to unreliable actors. Perhaps some of them will go on to be the leaders we need, taking with them these hard-earned lessons and applying them in ways we cannot yet imagine.

Doctors were forced to operate on wounded persons and carry out amputations, including on children, without anaesthetics, and/or were forced to use inadequate and unsafe means to sedate patients, causing these persons extreme pain and suffering. This amounts to the crime against humanity of other inhumane acts.