Medical staff treat wounded Afghan National Army soldiers at Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan Military Hospital in Kabul ©Wakil Kohsar (AFP)
Daily Mail/AFP: Taliban treated alongside angry soldiers in Afghan hospital
The injured Taliban fighter stands shackled, with his face covered by a ski mask and wearing a helmet to block out noise so that, for security reasons, he cannot tell where he is.
The insurgent was wounded while battling the Afghan army and is now flanked by soldiers throughout his medical treatment at the nation's largest military hospital.
He is cared for alongside the very men whose comrades he once faced in battle, and the troops are furious about the arrangement at Kabul's Sardar Mohammed Daoud Khan hospital.
WNU Editor: These Taliban soldiers have cause.
7 comments:
I had to perform work in a hospital "ward" full of ANA soldiers more than once. If I live to be 100, I will never forget their faces.
To treat their enemies in the same place as themselves is a grave insult.
And a special person to treat your enemy, kudos Sir.
Probably the Taliban look upon themselves as representatives of the former Afghan government that was displaced by a foreign power, now represented by the ANA soldiers who might be called insurgents.
By the laws of war we have to treat the enemy. Doesn't mean we cannot try them and execute them for not having a uniform.
In some cases they are too poor. In other cases they use traditional garb to infiltrate. In those cases let the chips fall.
Treat 'em.
Fine.
Just don't treat 'em next to me... if it can be helped.
I try to practice the philosophy of Buddhism, a main component being compassion.
Yet when it comes to a totally barbaric enemy who goes out of their way to violate all the modern conventions of war and explicitly wants to violate you and your comrades, families and your free and accepting way of life. It somehow to me, a civilian who cherishes all things most cherish, must consider a suspension or alternate expression of those long held conventions of war. I am not a knowledgeable person in these things, but I always thought most of our enemies held to some common standard, therefore deserving of such.
I have read that just such an adjustment is taking place in civil and military thinking. As relates to hostage taking and and the calculations made regarding civilians in enemy/terrorist occupation of an area.
The important distinction from that situation I guess, an injured therefore in custody human trumps, an enemy in the position of striking. I would still be angry and more.
Therefore my admiration. That is a special and well trained soldier.
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