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Khassan Baiev ((チェチェン語:Хасан Баиев)) (born 4 April 1963) is a Chechen trauma surgeon who upheld the Hippocratic oath to treat thousands of civilians and combatants on both sides of the First and Second Chechen Wars, including Russian soldiers and Chechen fighters. Baiev has been honored by Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, and Amnesty International for his work.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = International Committee for the Children of Chechnya )〕 He has authored two memoirs, ''The Oath: A Surgeon Under Fire'' and ''Grief of My Heart: Memoirs of a Chechen Surgeon'', and has served as Chairman of the International Committee for the Children of Chechnya since 2003.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = International Committee for the Children of Chechnya )〕 He is also a sambo world champion, and holds a black belt in judo.〔 ==Early life and education== Khassan Baiev was born as a fraternal twin in Alkhan-Kala, a suburb of Grozny, in 1963.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = TheOathBook.com )〕 His father, a herbalist by profession, served in the Soviet Red Army and was wounded during World War II, but was deported to Kazakhstan as a result of the forced deportations of most Chechens to Central Asia in February 1944. Baiev's parents would return in 1959 after Nikita Khrushchev allowed for the Chechens to return home during the de-Stalinization campaign. Plagued by frailty and illness growing up, Baiev took up martial arts to overcome his physical weaknesses – by late adolescence he was a black belt judoka who won national competitions and faced a promising career as a coach in the sports-obsessed Soviet Union.〔 However, Baiev desired to become a doctor, as his sisters were nurses and his father a herbalist, and in his words, "''I always wanted to do something that would be of service to society.''" Despite poor academic performance and racial discrimination against Caucasians, Baiev gained provisional acceptance to the Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute in Siberia in 1980 because of his sports achievements.〔 As a medical student, Baiev faced several struggles: he was forced to study and sleep in the waiting room of the local railroad station for the first six months,〔 he had to find a difficult balance between his medical studies and sports competitions, and he had to overcome several Chechen traditions, including one that forbids men from helping in childbirth.〔 Baiev decided to specialize in cosmetic surgery, despite an Islamic belief that man should not change what Allah has given him, because he found that offering a better life to a child with birth defects or to a woman unhappy with her looks was rewarding.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Khassan Baiev」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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