News / Brèves Back to previous selection / Retour à la sélection précédente Médecins Sans Frontières President Demands Investigation of Hospital Bombing: ’International Humanitarian Law Is Not about ’Mistakes.’ 8 October 2015 Doctors Without Borders President Joanne Liu CRC—Speaking at the UN Palais des Nations at Geneva today, Médecins Sans Frontières President Dr. Joanne Liu said the U.S. air bombings that killed 22 people, including a number of MSF staff members, while injuring many others, cannot be brushed aside referring those who died as "collateral damage" or as an "inevitable consequence of war", MSF’s website reported. Dr. Liu said: "International humanitarian law is not about ’mistakes.’ It is about intention, facts, and why. The U.S. attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz was the biggest loss of life for our organization in an airstrike. Tens of thousands of people in Kunduz can no longer receive medical care now when they need it most. Today we say: enough. Even war has rules." Yesterday, testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, went ahead with the cover-up by claiming that the air raid bombing was a "mistake." MSF, also known as Doctors Without Borders, has made clear that the U.S. knew it was a hospital, it had the coordinates, and yet, bombs were dropped again and again. Calling for an investigation that would include neither the U.S., NATO, nor the Afghan government, Dr. Liu said: "Today we announce that we are seeking an investigation into the Kunduz attack by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission. This Commission was established in the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions and is the only permanent body set up specifically to investigate violations of international humanitarian law."