Condolence payments for Kunduz victims’ families
“It’s time to present the full truth and not just their preferred partial version”. The U.S. story changed.
Obama also called Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to express his condolences for the loss of innocent lives in the incident, the spokesman said, and to commend Afghan forces for their bravery in the fight to control the northern Afghan city in clashes with Taliban insurgents.
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 Mr Ghani and his national security adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar on Friday. The United Nations will fail the people of Afghanistan, the volunteers of MSF, and indeed every human of free conscience, if the USA military, and its Commander-in-Chief are allowed to investigate and sit in judgment over their assault on a medical facility!
The attack led MSF to close the trauma centre – a lifeline in a war-battered region with scant medical care.
“MSF’s longstanding policy is to not accept funding from any governments for its work in Afghanistan and other conflicts around the world”. In addition, the organization says there were no Taliban fighters around the hospital. The Pentagon said families of victims of the attack will be compensated. It would take a concerted worldwide pressure and calls from other countries in order to get this to happen.
This opinion article was written by an independent writer. Neither will the European Union or North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and in any case the latter- post Libya would lack any credibility.
Congress should step in with as nonpartisan an investigation as possible.
3 attack left 22 people dead, including MSF doctors and patients.
Neither do most of the rest of us. The IHFFC’s president, Gisela Perren-Klingler told the media on 10/7/2015: “We are not an accountability mechanism, so we are different from the ICC [International Criminal Court]”.
The MSF started working in Afghanistan in 1980. They will not. No country ever has. The Commission is made up of diplomats, legal experts, doctors, and a few former military officers from nine European Union countries. The investigation of the horrendous events must be very public with media and the public monitoring it every day. It can not in fact achieve much of anything at all anytime soon, if ever. Their facilities have been destroyed, and many of their doctors, who had given up their lives to help those in need, have since perished. Neither reportedly is President Obama. Five patients – members of a single family shot while trying to flee Kunduz – had been brought in earlier that evening, around 6 p.m. The wards were mostly quiet after that, and no major fighting had been reported. The American government’s mission of righting wrongs and uprooting the bad guys has always been an excuse for top officials to stick their noses where they don’t belong.
The group is calling for an worldwide Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission investigation of the incident.
These are the same troops the US military has spent billions to train and equip so that it can finally withdraw from America’s longest war.
From October to December of 2001 the USA bombed the Wazir Akbar Khan Women’s Hospital in Kabul, a hospital in Kandahar, a clinic in Daman district of Kandahar, a military hospital in Herat, two clinics in Uruzgun, a clinic in Paktia, Dand Red Cross clinic in Kandahar, and Mirwais Mina Hospital in Kandahar. It’s 14 years, we still see accidents, as they claim, happening and there’s going to be no repercussions for the United States.