US Airstrike Not Just Attack on Our Hospital, But Attack on Geneva Conventions: MSF Chief

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Alwaght- Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Wednesday demanded an independent investigation into the deadly US airstrike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz to determine whether the attack can be regarded as a war crime.
But the charity, which condemned the attack as a war crime, stressed the need for an international inquiry, saying the bombing raid that killed 22 people was in contravention of the Geneva Conventions.
"We cannot rely on an internal military investigation," Doctors Without Borders (MSF) chief Joanne Liu told reporters in Geneva, insisting that an "international humanitarian fact-finding commission" should probe the bombing.
"This was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated," Liu said.
According to Doctors without Borders, such an investigation should gather evidence from the US, NATO and Afghanistan, as well as testimonies of the Kunduz hospital staff and patients. Depending on the findings, MSF would consider whether to bring charges for loss of life and partial destruction of the hospital in Kunduz.
In her speech, Joanne Liu announced that MSF wanted the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to conduct an investigation into the Kunduz attack. This international body was established in 1991 under the additional protocol to 1949 Geneva Convention relating to the protection of civilian persons in time of war – it has never been convened since that time.
“The tool exists and it is time it is activated,” Liu said, adding that “governments up to now have been too polite or afraid to set a precedent.”
Saturday's raid sparked international outrage, fuelled by claims that patients had burned to death as they lay in their beds.
Liu's remarks come a day after General John Campbell, the top US and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said the "hospital was mistakenly struck" when Afghan officials called for the raid.

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