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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.
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.”
