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October 19, 2015

Doctors Without Borders: U.S. Strike on Hospital Not a Mistake 
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The general director of Doctors Without Borders says he does not believe
the deadly U.S. bombing on his organization's hospital in Kunduz,
Afghanistan, was a mistake. The attack earlier this month killed at
least 22 patients and medical staff members. Christopher Stokes told the
Associated Press the bombing appears to have been a war crime.

Christopher Stokes: "The extensive, quite precise destruction of this
hospital—and I've spent all morning going through it with my
colleagues and looking at the extent of the destruction—doesn't
suggest that, doesn't mean, doesn't indicate a mistake. The hospital was
repeatedly hit, both the front and the rear, and extensively destroyed
and damaged, even though we had provided all the coordinates and all the
right information to all the armed parties in the conflict. So we want a
clear explanation, because all the indication points to a grave breach
of international humanitarian law, and therefore a war crime."

 

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