Doctors Without Borders Seeks Explanation for Kunduz Hospital Attack
Source: New York Times
By JOSEPH GOLDSTEINNOV. 5, 2015
KABUL, Afghanistan The Doctors Without Borders hospital was among the most brightly lit buildings in Kunduz on the night a circling American gunship destroyed it.
The rest of the northern Afghan city was mostly dark after days of fighting between the security forces and Taliban militants. But the hospital was keeping its lights on as doctors there were working, according to the groups general director, Christopher Stokes.
Spread across the hospital roof was a large white and red flag reading Médecins Sans Frontières, the groups French name. On the afternoon before the strike, the fighting in the neighborhood had quieted enough for staff members to safely climb to the roof and lay out the markers identifying the building to any military aircraft flying over.
The group had also sent the longitude and latitude coordinates of the hospital, for years the most important trauma center in that part of northern Afghanistan, to the United States military to remind it where not to attack during the fighting.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/06/world/asia/doctors-without-borders-seeks-explanation-for-kunduz-hospital-attack.html?_r=0
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)field hospitals and 'no strike safe zones' .
OnyxCollie
(9,958 posts)If you want to change the subject, start another thread.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)there need to be prosecutions, convictions, and severe prison sentences for the war criminals who signed off on this atrocity