Critical Analysis on: Triage: Dr. Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma

The documentary film “Triage: Dr. Orbinski’s Humanitarian Dilemma” recorded Dr. James Orbinski's, former head of the non-governmental organization Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, aka. Doctors without Borders), returns to the countries he provided humanitarian aid work in 1990s while composing his own memoirs as a field physician. Dr. Orbinski's visited his previous work locations, colleagues, friends and even patients in Somalia, Rwanda and Congo to evaluate their current circumstances. During his trip, Dr. Orbinski introduced and shared a lot of his experiences and memories to be a humanitarian aid worker, and saw the people suffered the pain at there. In addition, he provided much profound thoughts and views to us on humanitarian work when he looked back his memories and observed the current perspective and development on his aid work through interviews (Bell, 2008)

From my own point of view, the film is to present the audience couple significant controversies or dilemmas in the current humanitarian aid work around the world, such as (i) whether humanitarian aid workers, who save thousands of lives from violence, conflicts and wars, should be protected by external forces to work without any danger to their own lives, and (ii) whether a humanitarian organization could be truly independent, neutral and impartial to deliver its aid work without any external interferences and supports, the last (iii) after all, sometimes as a humanitarian aid workers or humanitarian that the powers are limited which cannot save thousands of people who are suffered in the violence or wars, whether need to get the military forces to solve , this idea is good or not ? Because we always see the external military forces will lead to more serious consequences, not only don’t save the lives, but also more peoples died.

There are several examples to support my view on the film’s thesis:

(1) Dr. Ricardo Marques was murdered in 1997 at Baidoa Hospital at Somalia, which caused the withdraw...