Afghan pres. picks team to probe US hospital bombing in Kunduz
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a fact-finding team to probe into the US aerial bombing of a hospital in Kunduz city in north Afghanistan that destroyed the compound and left at least 22 people killed, with more than 33 still missing.
The five-man commission would soon travel to Kunduz to investigate what led to the October 3 airstrike on the trauma center of the hospital run by the international charity Doctors Without Borders, said deputy presidential spokesman Zafar Hashemi on Saturday as cited in an AP report.
The investigative team, according to Hashemi, would be led by the former chief of Afghan National Intelligence Agency Amrullah Saleh and would report to President Ghani.
Following the deadly incident, the France-based medical aid agency, also known by its acronym MSF, revealed in a statement that the aerial assault continued for more than half an hour even after US and Afghan military authorities in their respective capitals, Washington and Kabul, were informed of the strikes.
“This was not just an attack on our hospital; it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated,” MSF President Joanne Liu (pictured below) further stated following the deadly bombing, demanding an independent and impartial probe into the incident.
“We cannot rely on internal military investigation by the US, NATO and Afghan forces,” said Liu, adding that the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) was “the only permanent body set up specifically to investigate violations on an international humanitarian law.”
According to MSF, 12 of their staff members as well as 10 patients, all of them Afghans, were killed in the US bombing. Those missing, however, do not include any international workers as all of them have been accounted for.
The Afghan president, meanwhile, met with representatives of Doctors Without Borders on Friday, his office announced, telling the group's general director Christopher Stokes and its Afghanistan representative Guilhem Molinie that he had ordered Afghan security forces to ensure the safety of humanitarian organizations.
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