![]() So if you have already seen the film, read on further to understand all the consequential events of its storyline that lead up to its tragic and disturbing ending. We accessed all the webpages at the time of submission of this Letter.Netflix’s ‘Eye for an Eye’ walks you through another compelling tale of vengeance which is mildly familiar but is hard-hitting nonetheless. US health professionals helped in torture of detainees, report says. Shakil Afridi: The doctor who helped the CIA find Bin Laden. Has India’s contribution to WW2 need ignored ? BBC News 17 June 2015. (2) Let Nagasaki remain ‘the last city’ to suffer nuclear devastation, says museum director as UN chief arrives. Acknowledge, in the curriculum, those who suffered for the advancement of medical science. On the other side, we believe that all the sufferers deserve our equal sympathy, care, moral support and a feeling of belonging regardless of their demographic characteristics. To aspire for an everlasting peace in our world, we need to realise that the human race is one and all the perpetrators of violence need to be equated - regardless of their religion, nationality, allegiance or ideology. Here we request the author to have courage, cross the ‘border’ sometimes and look at the hapless victims of the ‘other’ side, and read their stories as well. One sided story is half truth and sometimes not better than no knowledge at all. War is ugly because it inflicts uncountable and unimaginable, horrendous, diabolical sufferings, injures both the body - and the soul - on both sides and perhaps no one is the winner in its true sense, and we know this simple fact only after it ends.īut later on when someone claims that only their side suffered, we’d take that claim with a pinch of salt. ![]() We believe that their perceived superiority due to winning the war is not one of the reasons for the same. And why the Editor has decide to publish this Letter in the Journal among many posted comments, we fail to identify. Sadly our colleagues in the affluent West forget this legacy of our times, remember only the one-sided Nazi atrocities of WW2 era and blame (only) them (the Nazis) for the continuing distrust between us. Doctors supported CIA questioning of prisoners in several overseas detention centers(6). CIA used doctors as spies in Afghanistan(5). And one of the fall outs of this hepatitis ‘campaign’ is that still healthcare workers face violence when they go to communities to immunise children with polio vaccine(5). The doctor who supported the US in this endeavour is still languishing in jail and the US is making earnest attempts to get him released(4). They ran a fake Hepatitis campaign, drew blood samples and then made genetic testing to reach the wanted person. We also need to recall that US deployed healthcare workers to detect him by biomarkers. All of us know that he was hiding in Abbottabad in Pakistan near one of the military bases and Pakistan still remains one of the closest partners of the US in the ‘fight’ against terrorism. Here we need to recall the biography of international terrorist - Osama Bin Laden. ![]() Now let us examine the issue of the bad doctors - presumably the Nazi doctors - who conducted bad research, hence now communities don’t trust us. What needs to be remembered is that after winning their war as the allied country, the British conveniently forgot those ‘foreigner’ soldiers. If Hitler was the villain because he killed the Jews, what about the Americans who killed innocent civilians in Japan by the only act of nuclear attack on civilization till date ? And fodder for the world war came from several British colonies of that era - including India(3). Therefore if you count Holocaust victims on this side, don’t discount those bombing victims of the 'other side' as well. About 40,000 died in Hiroshima and 60,000 in Nagasaki(2). Concurrently we’d not forget victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. And if those among the later generations go through that ‘constructed’ history and believe that in toto, in our opinion, that is not their individual fault. And there is a rule since the dawn of human history that the winner occupies the land, the properties, writes the rules of the treaties thereafter - and since the advent of writing - even decides the way history is drafted for posterity. Simple !īut when we look at the other side of the battle line, we’ll discover that they too suffered injuries, indignities, wounds, and died later on - sometimes in scores. And it's reason is that as Nazi doctors made unethical research on Jews, tortured them and then dissected them, now communities don’t trust doctors and other healthcare providers. The author writes in last line of her Letter that some communities distrust healthcare providers and also suggests its reason(1).
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