MSF seeks humanitarian investigation into Kunduz attack

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http://www.dw.com/en/msf-seeks-humanitarian-investigation-into-kunduz-attack/a-18765558

Doctors Without Borders - or MSF - has demanded an independent investigation by a never-used international body into the bombing of a Kunduz hospital. MSF says a US military probe alone is not enough.

MSF seeks humanitarian investigation into Kunduz attack
07.10.2015

MSF wants to invoke the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC), a Switzerland-based international body, set up in 1991, which has never been called upon.

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In a news briefing on Wednesday, MSF's president, Joanne Liu, said that "we cannot rely on an internal [US] military investigation" into a deadly US air strike on a hospital MSF was running in the Afghan city of Kunduz.

She said it was not just an "attack on our hospital - it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. It can't be tolerated." Liu asked people to "stand with us to insist that even wars have rules."

The medical charity said that the Bern-based commission, which can be invoked at the request of a single state under the Geneva Convention, would gather facts and evidence from the United States, NATO and Afghanistan.