Doctors Without Borders emphasises need for independent enquiry into US hospital bombing: iLIVE

06 October 2015 - 11:24 By Christopher Stokes, Doctors Without Borders General Director
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In this photograph released by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 3, 2015, fires burn in part of the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz after it was hit by an air strike.
In this photograph released by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 3, 2015, fires burn in part of the MSF hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz after it was hit by an air strike.
Image: AFP PHOTO / MSF

The US government has admitted that it was their airstrike that hit our hospital in Kunduz and killed 22 patients and Doctors Without Borders staff.

Their description of the attack keeps changing – from collateral damage, to a tragic incident, to now attempting to pass responsibility to the Afghanistan government. The reality is the US dropped those bombs. The US hit a huge hospital full of wounded patients and MSF staff. The US military remains responsible for the targets it hits, even though it is part of a coalition. There can be no justification for this horrible attack. With such constant discrepancies in the US and Afghan accounts of what happened, the need for a full transparent independent investigation is ever more critical.

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