According to Deneshi, sporadic fighting has been continuing in parts of the city and Taliban militants who have hidden in private houses would soon be killed or captured. However, the details of USA involvement in the attack are murky since the US has changed its account of what happened that day.
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The medical charity, which lost 12 of its staff and 10 patients, is pressing for an global commission to investigate what it calls a war crime.
There is a few discrepancy as to how close Taliban forces were to the hospital, making it a target.
The bombing continued for about an hour and destroyed the hospital’s main building.
It is unacceptable that the bombing of a hospital and the killing of staff and patients can be dismissed as collateral damage or brushed aside as a mistake.
On Tuesday, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the USA military deeply regretted the loss of life and was acknowledging its mistake and working to understand what went wrong.
Obama also reportedly called on President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan to express condolences for the death of Afghan civilians.
We demand an independent investigation by the IHFFC to establish the facts of this event.
Three separate investigations – by the USA military, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Afghan officials – are under way. The hospital was the primary medical facility in the entire region. But what choice do they have?
A major casualty of this latest stage of America’s war without end in Afghanistan was the bombing, on October 3, of a major hospital in Kunduz operated by Doctors Without Borders, a French relief agency that, like the global Red Cross, frequently sets up shop in active combat zones. The strike “mistakenly” killed 22 people. Journalists and mass media institutions are supposed to act as The Fourth Estate, playing the role of the watchdog.
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Among the recordings taken from the AC-130 gunship involved in the attack are conversations among the gunship crew as they fired on the facility, and as they communicated with USA soldiers on the ground. In addition, the organization says there were no Taliban fighters around the hospital. There may be good reasons for military action – to exact retribution, to rescue the innocent from tyranny, to further national security – but once you start a conflict, it’s awfully hard to end it.
