# Can and should the Doctors without borders be charged with war crimes **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 4, 2015, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538 "2015-10-04T20:30:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538/41 "2015-10-07T19:30:31Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > If they did have knowledge that insurgents were using their facilities and vehicles, and failed to report, then thats on them, and its actionable. Absolutely fucking not. If armed fighters take over their hospital – which MSF claims did not happen, so we’re just in hypothetical land here – the people in the hospital are not collaborators, they are more like hostages. Why don’t you start a thread about how residents on a street in an American city that has an open-air drug market should be jailed for failing to inform the police about the criminal activity occurring in front of them? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538/42 "2015-10-07T19:35:36Z")
I saw a guy speeding this morning; I called no one; lock me up. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538/43 "2015-10-07T19:54:05Z")
I’d go with the Taliban being charged with war crimes, but I don’t think they really care all that much at this point. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![DrCube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@DrCube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrCube)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538/44 "2015-10-07T20:23:48Z")
> [@Declan](#): > > The next time the Geneva or Hague accords get updated, this needs to be addressed. There is no requirement, that I have found for third parties in a conflict to self report, this is going to happen again. So if American forces entered the hospital, you would expect, nay, _demand_, that the doctors dial up the Taliban and call in an artillery strike on themselves and their patients? WHY? ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538/45 "2015-10-07T20:47:17Z")
> [@XT](#): > > I’d go with the Taliban being charged with war crimes, but I don’t think they really care all that much at this point. 😛 They’re in shell-shock from being out-islamic-crazied by ISIS. Go home, grandpas. ---
**Author:** ![nicky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f0a364/32.png) [@nicky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nicky)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538/46 "2015-10-07T21:07:12Z")
The trigger happy idiots who sanctioned the strike should be court-martialled. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-and-should-the-doctors-without-borders-be-charged-with-war-crimes/733538.md?page=2)