President Obama Apologizes For Afghanistan Hospital Bombing

President Obama called the Doctors Without Borders chief and the president of Afghanistan to apologize for the airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said.

Doctors Without Borders was unimpressed Wednesday when President Barack Obama called to personally apologize for dropping bombs on one of its hospitals in Afghanistan.

Obama told the organization that an ongoing Pentagon investigation would “provide a transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the facts and circumstances of the incident”, he added.

Ms Liu said the global Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission was “the only permanent body set up specifically to investigate violations of worldwide humanitarian law”, and she called on the commission’s signatory states to activate an inquiry.

MSF has said that the air strike that levelled the hospital constituted a war crime, and has demanded an independent investigation.

Mr Obama also called Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and pledged to keep working closely with his government, Mr Earnest said.

The Taliban’s recent capture of the important city of Kunduz has however badly shaken confidence in the Afghan government’s ability to hold the militants off despite North Atlantic Treaty Organisation support, leading to second thoughts.

“We cannot rely on internal investigations by U.S, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Afghan forces”.

Molinie said Thursday MSF hasn’t received any guarantees that will give them the “assurance” to come back to Kunduz.

CONE: We are calling on President Obama to consent to the Fact-Finding Commission.

On Tuesday, the United States military described the attack as a mistake, and denied that it would ever deliberately target a medical facility.

MSF urgent the creation of an independent worldwide committee to investigate the bombing.

WikiLeaks has offered a reward of $50,000 for any footage or cockpit audio from the USA warplane that bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in the Afghan northern City of Kunduz. However, U.S. Gen. John F. Campbell confessed on Wednesday that the attack was “a US decision made within the USA chain of command”, reports The New York Times.

“Today we say enough, even war has rules”.

“We want a more solid system to be able to establish the proof for this attack and also for potential future incidents”, Stokes said.