Last week, NPR ran a story that made me cringe, describing a major humanitarian group’s decision to stop treating patients from detention centers in Misrata, Libya. According to the report,“torture was so rampant that some detainees were brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation.”1
On the one hand, I thought, it must have been heart-wrenching to walk away from the detention centers, where the organization had been working since last August, knowing some detainees would die without care. But then I thought, there really was no other option; these health workers were being used as pawns of warfare.
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