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Dr. Joanne Liu, president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) International, pauses before making her statement in Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2015. (Photo: Denis Balibouse/ Reuters)
In Geneva this morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president, Dr.
In Geneva this morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president, Dr. Joanne Liu (pictured above, center), specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war-crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. "Even war has rules," Liu said. "This was just not an attack on our hospital. It was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated."
Liu emphasized that the need for an "independent, impartial"investigation is now particularly compelling given what she called "the inconsistency in the U.S. and Afghan accounts of what happened over the recent days." On Monday, we documented the multiple conflicting accounts offered in the first three days by the U.S. military and its media allies, but the story continued to change even further after that. As The Guardian's headline yesterday noted, the U.S. admission that its own personnel called in the airstrike - not Afghan forces as it claimed the day before - meant that "US alters story for fourth time in four days." All of this led Liu to state the obvious today: "We cannot rely on internal military investigations by the U.S., NATO and Afghan forces."
An independent, impartial investigation into what happened here should be something everyone can immediately agree is necessary. But at its daily press briefing on Monday, the U.S. State Department, through its spokesman Mark Toner, insisted that no such independent investigation was needed on the ground that the U.S. Government is already investigating itself and everyone knows how trustworthy and reliable this process is[...]
Can anyone justify that? So predictably, American journalists have announced without even waiting for any investigation that this was all a terrible accident, nothing intentional about it. Those U.S.-defending journalists should be the angriest about their government's refusal to allow an independent, impartial investigation since that would be the most effective path for exonerating them and proving their innocent, noble intentions.
Read the rest of the column at The Intercept.
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In Geneva this morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president, Dr. Joanne Liu (pictured above, center), specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war-crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. "Even war has rules," Liu said. "This was just not an attack on our hospital. It was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated."
Liu emphasized that the need for an "independent, impartial"investigation is now particularly compelling given what she called "the inconsistency in the U.S. and Afghan accounts of what happened over the recent days." On Monday, we documented the multiple conflicting accounts offered in the first three days by the U.S. military and its media allies, but the story continued to change even further after that. As The Guardian's headline yesterday noted, the U.S. admission that its own personnel called in the airstrike - not Afghan forces as it claimed the day before - meant that "US alters story for fourth time in four days." All of this led Liu to state the obvious today: "We cannot rely on internal military investigations by the U.S., NATO and Afghan forces."
An independent, impartial investigation into what happened here should be something everyone can immediately agree is necessary. But at its daily press briefing on Monday, the U.S. State Department, through its spokesman Mark Toner, insisted that no such independent investigation was needed on the ground that the U.S. Government is already investigating itself and everyone knows how trustworthy and reliable this process is[...]
Can anyone justify that? So predictably, American journalists have announced without even waiting for any investigation that this was all a terrible accident, nothing intentional about it. Those U.S.-defending journalists should be the angriest about their government's refusal to allow an independent, impartial investigation since that would be the most effective path for exonerating them and proving their innocent, noble intentions.
Read the rest of the column at The Intercept.
In Geneva this morning, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) demanded a formal, independent investigation into the U.S. airstrike on its hospital in Kunduz. The group's international president, Dr. Joanne Liu (pictured above, center), specified that the inquiry should be convened pursuant to war-crime-investigating procedures established by the Geneva Conventions and conducted by The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. "Even war has rules," Liu said. "This was just not an attack on our hospital. It was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated."
Liu emphasized that the need for an "independent, impartial"investigation is now particularly compelling given what she called "the inconsistency in the U.S. and Afghan accounts of what happened over the recent days." On Monday, we documented the multiple conflicting accounts offered in the first three days by the U.S. military and its media allies, but the story continued to change even further after that. As The Guardian's headline yesterday noted, the U.S. admission that its own personnel called in the airstrike - not Afghan forces as it claimed the day before - meant that "US alters story for fourth time in four days." All of this led Liu to state the obvious today: "We cannot rely on internal military investigations by the U.S., NATO and Afghan forces."
An independent, impartial investigation into what happened here should be something everyone can immediately agree is necessary. But at its daily press briefing on Monday, the U.S. State Department, through its spokesman Mark Toner, insisted that no such independent investigation was needed on the ground that the U.S. Government is already investigating itself and everyone knows how trustworthy and reliable this process is[...]
Can anyone justify that? So predictably, American journalists have announced without even waiting for any investigation that this was all a terrible accident, nothing intentional about it. Those U.S.-defending journalists should be the angriest about their government's refusal to allow an independent, impartial investigation since that would be the most effective path for exonerating them and proving their innocent, noble intentions.
Read the rest of the column at The Intercept.
