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November 4, 2015

Doctors Without Borders Marks 1 Month Since U.S. Bombing of Hospital 
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Doctors Without Borders has marked one month since the United States
bombed its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing 30 people. The
Pentagon has still not issued a long-delayed preliminary report on the
attack. Hundreds of people gathered in Geneva Tuesday to pay tribute to
the victims and continue the call for an independent probe. Doctors
Without Borders President Joanne Liu said the bombing cannot be allowed
to pass as a "non-event."

Joanne Liu: "I think that we need to remember that. We need to tell the
world that it's completely abnormal. We need to not normalize such an
event. If we allow this to be a non-event, then it is giving a blank
check to all the countries at war in the world, to just say, 'Do
whatever you want. And you know what? We don't think that a hospital is
a protected space anymore.' This is not what we want. The message today
is, we do believe that the last, last patch of humanity that there is in
the chaos of war is basically a hospital."

 

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