"In a report
in March to the United Nations Human Rights Council, the Independent
International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic accused
both sides of targeting medical care as part of their military strategy.
“Medical personnel and hospitals have been deliberately targeted and
are treated by parties to the conflict as military objectives,” the
report said.
The 10-page report documented a litany of abuses by government forces
and rebels: Treatment has been denied on sectarian grounds. Hospitals
and clinics have been attacked. The government and rebels have limited
care in medical facilities to their own supporters. Doctors and nurses
have been forced to accept the bodies of executed opposition fighters
and to register them as deceased patients...
