{"id":48464,"date":"2015-10-05T04:04:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48464"},"modified":"2015-10-05T04:04:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T11:04:09","slug":"an-independent-investigation-required-to-probe-the-bombing-of-the-hospital-in-afganistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/05\/an-independent-investigation-required-to-probe-the-bombing-of-the-hospital-in-afganistan\/","title":{"rendered":"An independent investigation required to probe the bombing of the hospital in Afganistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>RANJITH SOYSA<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>When the USA was pushing Sri Lanka for a hybrid investigation in Geneva\u00a0to inquire into the allegations leveled by highly questionable sources the US air-crafts\u00a0were bombing a hospital in Kunduz in Afganistan resulting in innocent civilian deaths,\u00a0\u00a0 The Doctors without Borders who were running the hospital have said that the US cannot come\u00a0\u00a0 up with any excuses as all the authorities have been kept informed of the\u00a0humanitarian tasks handled by the hospital and its GPS indicators.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the USA has expressed its intention to carry out an investigation on their own.<\/p>\n<p>But, as this an act of brazen violence against international human rights law, the UN , the\u00a0OHCHR should move in the matter with utmost urgency and initiate investigations to ascertain whether it is indeed a war crime.<\/p>\n<p>The USA which has craftily avoided war crimes charges in Iraq, Libya etc ,while pontificating to other nations of the virtues of\u00a0accountability etc SHOULD be investigated on this incident WITHOUT ANY DELAY<\/p>\n<p>RANJITH SOYSA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RANJITH SOYSA When the USA was pushing Sri Lanka for a hybrid investigation in Geneva\u00a0to inquire into the allegations leveled by highly questionable sources the US air-crafts\u00a0were bombing a hospital in Kunduz in Afganistan resulting in innocent civilian deaths,\u00a0\u00a0 The Doctors without Borders who were running the hospital have said that the US cannot come\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}