Morning Star.png Afghanistan: Red Cross and MSF Seek Probe of Hospital Attack World Desk, The Morning Star, London, 8 October 2015 The international Red Cross joined Doctors Without Borders (MSF) yesterday in calling for an investigation of last week's US bombing of a hospital in northern Afghanistan. MSF called for the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC), an independent body, to look into the air strike on its medical facility near the city of Kunduz that killed 12 of its staff and 10 patients. MSF hospital Kunduz, gates and bombing fire.jpg Washington and Kabul have blamed each other and the Taliban for the blunder, claiming that Afghan troops asked for the US strike after militants opened fire from the hospital. Condemning the "war crime," MSF international president Joanne Liu said the bombing "was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva conventions. This cannot be tolerated." Dr Helen Durham, director of international law and policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the IHFFC could "help to clarify the facts surrounding this tragic incident." From: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-232c-Afghanistan-Red-Cross-and-MSF-seek -probe-of-hospital-attack#.VhXwTPmqqko -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
