The International Humanitarian Fact Finding Committee (IHFFC), a body created under the Geneva Conventions to investigate war crimes, has indicated it is ready and willing to investigate this month’s US attack on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. The attack killed 22 civilians, and Doctors Without Borders, which ran the facility, has sought an independent investigation.
The IHFFC did, however, say they require assurances of cooperation to begin the investigation, and that means it almost certainly won’t happen, as the White House is loudly opposing the effort to establish any independent inquiry into the killings.
President Obama is said to believe an investigation is “unnecessary,” and the White House is promising that the Pentagon’s own inquiry into the attack will be sufficient. US Gen. Philip Breedlove had previously endorsed the IHFFC investigation, but now it seems the US is determined to stonewall it.
Doctors Without Borders is complaining that nearly two weeks after the incident, they remain “in the dark about why a well-known hospital full of patients and staff was repeatedly bombarded for more than an hour.” In the absence of a good excuse, officials seem determined to keep the probe away from prying eyes.
Are you sure the US did it looks more than an Israeli operation in Gaza.
Obama: "This is the most transparent administration in history."
That's why we can so easily recognize his continual crimes against humanity?
Excellent idea. MSF may regret it, though. An ariel photo on another website in an article hostile to the US purporting to show the hospital showed a building that looked more like a military barracks than a hospital but, more importantly, didn't show the giant flags that MSF claims were stretched on the roof. Since nobody has been allowed to see the flags and MSF is very cagey about what they showed, carefully avoiding a claim that thye were Red Cross flags, it would be interesting to hear their reaction to the photo. If that was the US intelligence photo supplied to the aircrew, then the attacking plane would have had no idea that the building was a hospital.
Bad bad form even you should have just been silent and not said a word