“They hit us six months ago and are apologizing now?” said Zabiullah Niazi, an operating room nurse at the hospital who lost an eye, a finger and the ability to use one hand. He also suffered other wounds. “The head of provincial council and other officials who said we accept the apology, they wouldn’t have said it if they had lost their own son and eaten ashes, as we did.”

Mr. Niazi said about 18 male family members of victims and two survivors were called to the governor’s office for a meeting with General Nicholson. But the general himself did not show up, instead making a speech in a packed auditorium where family members and survivors did not get a chance to speak.

Ms. MacDonald, however, stopped by “for one minute to say hello and express sorrow,” but she said she couldn’t answer questions on behalf of her husband, Mr. Niazi said. Ms. MacDonald spent more time — about five minutes, according to Mr. Niazi — with female survivors and family members in a separate room.

A family member of one of the hospital staff members killed in the American strike, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid reprisal by officials, expressed anger at the apology and flatly rejected it, saying it was inadequate to address the family’s loss.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/23/world/asia/afghanistan-hospital-bombing-apology.html