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March 18, 2016

No Criminal Charges for U.S. Soldiers Involved in Kunduz Bombing
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The Pentagon says at least a dozen U.S. military members have received
administrative punishments as a result of the October 2015 U.S.
airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan,
which killed 42 people-but none are facing criminal charges. The
Pentagon continues to call the attack an accident, although a report
from Doctors Without Borders concluded, "The view from inside the
hospital is that this attack was conducted with a purpose to kill and
destroy." Human Rights Watch has called for a criminal investigation.
Doctors Without Borders has called the strike a possible war crime.
Topics:Afghanistan

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