Pentagon to Compensate Victims of Hospital Airstrike

They bring a few humanity into what is otherwise an inhumane situation.

The MSF has considered the attack on its hospital a war crime and has demanded a transparent and thorough investigation. The US government has changed its statement regarding the strike for four times before acknowledging it as a mistake.

In the days after the city’sSept. As long as our program of endless military interventionism without regard for long-term consequences continues, incidents like the Kunduz hospital bombing will continue, and innocents will continue to be sacrificed on the altar of modern Bellona.

We have dropped bombs on wedding receptions, birthday parties and now a hospital.

The hospital ran by MSF in Kunduz is the only health facility of its kind in the city and its neighbouring districts.

“This policy allows us to work independently and without taking sides”, the organisation said in a statement. The moment the US pulls out of Afghanistan, the Taliban will doubtless renew their attempts to seize power, and Afghanistan’s endless war will return to pre-9/11 levels of ferocity. The AC-130 unit involved in the Kunduz attack was linked to a Special Operations Force, a USA official told The Daily Beast.

Separate investigations from North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and both the US and Afghan governments are being conducted. Neither the United States nor Afghanistan are signatories to the document, however. Taliban militants are operating on the outskirts of the city and defending their hideouts, according to Xinhua reporter in Kunduz city.

On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the US military deeply regretted the loss of life and was acknowledging its mistake and working to understand what went wrong.

And the Israeli attack occurred with Israeli forces under direct fire from nearby. Who called in the airstrike and supplied the targeting information? By 1970, they were firing 105mm artillery from a portable howitzer. The hospital was the primary medical facility in the entire region.

President Obama, in an unusual move, personally called Doctors with Borders to apologize on behalf of the United States.

MSF survivors said they were bombed. It also immediatelyalerted US authoritieswhen the hour-longbombingcampaignbegan on October 3. The building that was attacked contained emergency rooms, an intensive-care unit, blood lab, and X-ray room plus an outpatient waiting room.

While it is unclear what weapons were employed, the AC-130U’s 40mm round has a high explosive incendiary munition that is lined with zirconium. He would only give his first name because of security concerns. Light fixtures and parts of the ceiling crashed down on him. Our colleagues had to operate on each other. A pharmacist died in the hospital office. And yet, 10 patients in- cluding three children, and 12 MSF staff were killed in the aerial raids.

In the days before the assault, MSF said, it provided the hospital’s location repeatedly to the same officials. Note that the reply says nothing about who should be investigating. “Then we heard this calling, ‘Anyone alive?” The staff noted that the hospital was the only structure hit in the attack. A few could not be saved.