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MSF Calls for IHFCC to Conduct Independent Investigation Into Kunduz Hospital Attack

“On Saturday morning, MSF patients and staff killed in Kunduz joined the countless number of people who have been killed around the world in conflict zones and referred to as ‘collateral damage,’” Joanne Liu, international president of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), said at a news conference in Geneva on Wednesday, October 7.

Liu is calling for the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission, a body set up under the Geneva Conventions, to conduct an independent investigation into the strike on MSF’s hospital in the Afghan provincial capital of Kunduz, which left 22 people dead.

Army General John Campbell, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told a Senate panel on Tuesday that the hospital was “mistakenly struck” as a result of a “decision made within the U.S. chain of command.”

Liu hit back at Campbell’s remarks, saying, “It is unacceptable that the bombing of a hospital and the killing of staff and patients can be dismissed as collateral damage or brushed aside as a mistake." Credit: Youtube/MSF Canada