The Syria Trials: The Doctors Who Resisted
Sasha Edye-Lindner - 75 Podcasts (UK 2022)
29 min Episode 3 of 11
While many doctors and medical staff sided with the Syrian regime after the protests began in Syria in 2011, there were, of course, many doctors, nurses and medical students who sided with the protestors calling for freedom and democracy. Field medical teams to help injured protestors, and later field medical hospitals and checkpoints to care for those wounded in the escalating war, were set up - only to become targets of the regime’s increasingly more violent tactics.
Please take care when listening - this episode talks about violence and war.
The Syria Trials takes the listener on a trip through the stories around the scattered landscape of justice and accountability efforts for the atrocious crimes committed by the regime in Syria, since it violently suppressed the peaceful revolution in 2011. Less than a year after the Koblenz trial, the world’s first criminal trial to convict a Syrian official, they explore the other trials now underway, as well as the cases being built, that all set out to bring about justice for Syria. Where are we now on the long and complicated road to justice? What does the road ahead look like? What can the law and international justice do - and what can’t it do - for Syria?
Hosted by: Fritz Streiff
Produced by Sasha Edye-Lindner
Created by 75 Podcasts