Russia has a Long, Cruel History of Attacking Hospitals. Maybe This Time Its Leaders Will Be Prosecuted

by Leonard Rubenstein

Russia’s deliberate assaults on hospitals extend back decades. In the war in Chechnya at the end of the 1990’s, for example, it attacked hospitals throughout the region. And in Syria, it joined the Assad regime in targeting hospitals. When Syrians sought to protect hospitals by building them underground and in caves, Russia employed bunker-busting bombs. Though its assaults are well-documented, it has never been held to account for them. Now this is an opportunity to do so.

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