U.S. to pay victims of Afghan bombing

Liu complained that the attack in Kunduz was not just an attack on their hospital and a possible war crime but an attack on the Geneva Conventions that can not be tolerated.

He was well-known around his hometown, Kunduz, as the big-hearted, half-blind janitor who worked at the Doctors Without Borders hospital, swabbing the blood of war wounded from its tiled halls. “These Conventions govern the rules of war and were established to protect civilians in conflicts – including patients, medical workers and facilities”. It is required for study by United States forces everywhere who supposedly review the manual periodically and are tested on its rules via written exams.

Inside the hospital, which the worldwide relief agency in recent years had turned into the province’s most advanced medical facility, doctors and nurses were busier than ever. “The facts and circumstances of this attack must be investigated independently and impartially, particularly given the inconsistencies in the USA and Afghan accounts of what happened over recent days”, Liu said. Today we say: enough.

So what should we do now to change the behavior of our military forces that violate this most basic humanitarian law?

Less than two weeks after government troops entered Kunduz, they are still fighting to clear out pockets of Taliban insurgents, officials and residents said. The charity said Thursday that nine patients and 24 staff members were still missing.

The only way to end the war crimes is to end the us occupation immediately and to end this prolonged collective punishment aimed at the Afghan people for their heroic defiance of Washington’s dictates.

Representatives of Doctors Without Borders met with Mr. Ghani and his national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Friday, his office said in a statement. Stephane Dujarric a spokesperson for the United Nations said that ban is “always in favor of accountability, and he looks forward to a transparent and impartial investigation of what happened in the hospital in Kunduz”.

U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologized for the devastating strike.

The damage was enough for MSF to declare they would be leaving the region, which leaves those living there with a lack of medical care at a time in which it is desperately needed.

MSF relies only on private funding for its work in Afghanistan and does not accept money from any government. General John Campbell, the top USA commander in Afghanistan, told the Senate Armed Forces Committee that US Special Forces on the ground called in a strike from an AC-130 gunship.

The day after Taliban fighters swept through Afghanistan’s northern city of Kunduz, capturing a major urban area for the first time since 2001, six stray bullets crashed through the windows at the Doctors Without Borders hospital there.

And there must be full reparations and compensation for the families of the victims and the survivors of the attack, as well as rebuilding the hospital.