Molinie said Thursday MSF has not received any assurances that would give them the “confidence” to return to Kunduz.
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Doctors Without Borders has condemned the airstrike on the hospital in Kunduz as a possible “war crime”.
“If we don’t safeguard that medical space for us to do our activities, then it is impossible to work in other contexts like Syria, South Sudan, like Yemen”, she said.
“He merely offered his heartfelt apology” and offered a commitment to find out what went wrong, he said. “However, I assure you that the investigation will be through, objective and transparent”.
The bombing “was not just an attack on our hospital; it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions”, Dr. Liu told reporters in a news briefing. This can not be tolerated.
The MSF called the bombing a war crime and wanted an independent global committee to investigate the attack.
Also Wednesday, Liu called for the global Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, created under the Geneva Conventions, to investigate the devastating strike. “On the staff we had 461 staff working for us in Kunduz Trauma Center, and up to today, we are still missing 24 of them”.
“Even war has rules”, Liu stated.
Department of Defense has promised a full-fledged investigation and admitted the airstrike on the hospital – which resulted in the death of 22 people – was a mistake.
LAWRENCE: One of 76 signatory countries has to sponsor an investigation in order to activate the Fact-Finding Commission. Article 90 spells out the procedure for setting up such a commission.
That may not be enough for Doctors Without Borders, which has pressed for an independent investigation.
On Wednesday, Obama also telephoned Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to “express his condolences” and assured him with continuing cooperations with Afghan government and to provide “security” for Afghan people, according to White House.
The top USA commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, told lawmakers Tuesday that the bombing was a mistake and that the decision was carried out through the American chain of command.
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The attack continued for more than 30 minutes after the aid group first informed United States and Afghan military officials in Kabul and in Washington that the hospital was under fire.
