World starting to hold US accountable for its crimes: Activist
Press TV has conducted an interview with Leah Bolger, former president of the Veterans for Peace from Portland, to get her take on the international response to the US attack on a hospital in Afghanistan.
The following is a rough transcription of the interview.
Press TV: This seems to be ... a mistake, which isn’t going away. It’s still on the headlines. I’m wondering do you think that there will be accountability in this case?
Bolger: Oh, I surely hope so. You know, I think it’s high time that the international community held the United States to accountability when they violate international law the same way that the United States would hold other countries to accountability when they violate the international law. This is more than a tragedy. This is a crime. And I certainly hope there will be a full-scale independent international investigation and we should absolutely not rely on the United States to investigate itself.
Press TV: Indeed and that last point as you made it there, Miss Bolger, MSF has made that point quite strongly as well as you know, has been keeping up the momentum of course and pressure. I’m wondering, do you think that there really is a realistic possibility that there will be a neutral investigation here?
Bolger: I think there is. I think that the world community is finally starting to realize that they don’t have to count out the United States. They don’t have to be bully to everything the United States does. And I think the international community is starting to find its power and stand up to the United States and they certainly should not allow the United States to get by with something that they will. Our government will just brush up this collateral damage to show it was a mistake and an accident. The whole world that we initiated in the United States government was a violation of international law. Attacking Afghanistan in the first place was the violation of international law. And now hundreds of thousands of displaced [people] later and millions of refugees later, this is just another incident that piles on top of the war crimes that we already committed.
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