One of the more curious and less easily explained sidelights of the Algerian war was the presence in its more violent aspects, on both sides, of so many from a profession dedicated to the saving of human life.

QUESTION: What motivated physicians to engage in killing despite their Hippocratic oath? Genuinely curious about the psychology and circumstances.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1130