The “fact-finding team” will deliver a “comprehensive report so that we know what happened in Kunduz, what kind of reforms should be brought and what are the lessons learned for the future”, the president was quoted as saying.
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Army Brig. Gen. Richard Kim is leading the US investigation but only reached the hospital site in the last 48 hours, a second defense official explained, because of instability in the northern Afghan city. More than 30 individuals, presumed victims of the attack, are still missing.
President Barack Obama apologized for the incident, …
The group criticized “the inconsistencies in the US and Afghan accounts” of how a hospital whose location was known to combatants ended up as the target of a half-hour raid. The organisation left Kunduz on October. 4, after the strike in which it described as a “war crime”.
“The cleanup operation is going on”. And that wasn’t the case when the strikes occurred. There can be no justification for this frightful attack. The MSF demand did receive support from the top commander of North Atlantic Treaty Organisation: Philip Breedlove, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation Supreme Commander and four-star US Air Force General, told Deutsche Welle that he supports the investigation called for by Doctors Without Borders, through the worldwide Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC). It was an attack on the Geneva Conventions.
The Kunduz hospital bombing is likely to be a source of anguish and embarrassment for the United States for a few time to come.
And it is that third reason that can allow for myriad, legally justified attacks, such as the Taliban attacking U.S.-trained Afghan forces in a hotly contested city.
In this instance, there have been gross violations of rules of war. The War on Terror has exhausted itself, and the USA needs to find a way to leave the region completely. One of the worst offenses was the bombing of a Red Cross hospital at Shinkolobwe.
The Kabul police said the wounded included a woman and a child.
“The U.S. military takes the greatest care in our operations to prevent the loss of innocent life, and when we make mistakes, we own up to them”.
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Dozens of security personnel and a few 200 civilians have been killed and thousands others fled their houses to safer places since the fall of Kunduz city to the Taliban militants on September 29 and eruption of fighting there, according to locals and officials.
