Kunduz outrage: Medicins Sans Frontieres has asked that concerned people demand an independent investigation into the bombing of Kunduz Hospital.
The US Air Force had the GPS co-ordinates of the hospital so there is really no excuse for what happened, regardless of who called for assistance. The US said the Afghanistan troops asked for help however, the pilots were American service personnel, who we must assume are highly trained.
The US Air Force had the GPS co-ordinates of the hospital so there is really no excuse for what happened, regardless of who called for assistance. The US said the Afghanistan troops asked for help however, the pilots were American service personnel, who we must assume are highly trained.
This is not the first time that these specialist fliers have bombed their allies. An incident occurred in the First Iraqi War
when a group of British servicemen were wiped out by friendly fire from American aircraft. The US term is I believe 'collateral damage'.
On Saturday 3 October 2015 the MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, was repeatedly bombed by coalition forces.
"The US government has admitted that it was their airstrike that hit our hospital in Kunduz and killed 22 patients and MSF staff. Their description of the attack keeps changing Рfrom collateral damage, to a tragic incident, to now attempting to pass responsibility to the Afghanistan government." РChristopher Stokes, General Director, M̩decins Sans Fronti̬res
Please join in and demand that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted.
"The US government has admitted that it was their airstrike that hit our hospital in Kunduz and killed 22 patients and MSF staff. Their description of the attack keeps changing Рfrom collateral damage, to a tragic incident, to now attempting to pass responsibility to the Afghanistan government." РChristopher Stokes, General Director, M̩decins Sans Fronti̬res
Please join in and demand that a full and transparent investigation into the event be conducted.
To support this plea please view the link below
http://www.msf.org/kunduz-
Further to the above
- Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) have called for an independent fact-finding mission into a US airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan that killed at least 22 people, AP said. MSF said its call would mark the first time such a fact-finding mission would be launched under the rules of the Geneva Conventions. The weekend strike“was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions,” the group’s international president, Joanne Liu, said on Wednesday, adding that “this cannot be tolerated.”
There's nothing to add to the sad facts which you relate. Thank you for the link.
ReplyDeleteI think that one of the signs of maturity in a person and in a nation is the ability to face up to errors and not try to runaway from them John.
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