{"id":48585,"date":"2015-10-09T20:51:08","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T02:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=48585"},"modified":"2015-10-09T13:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T20:28:52","slug":"demand-an-independent-investigation-into-the-u-s-bombing-of-a-doctors-without-borders-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2015\/10\/09\/demand-an-independent-investigation-into-the-u-s-bombing-of-a-doctors-without-borders-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Demand an Independent Investigation Into the U.S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital!"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, a US airstrike claimed the lives of ten humanitarians from Doctors Without Borders and 12 patients \u2014 including three children<\/em><\/span>.<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sign the Petition<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The staff came from all over the world, offering their time and talents to heal the people of Afghanistan’s war-torn Kunduz province. Patients journeyed from miles away for medical and surgical care they could get nowhere else in the region.<\/p>\n

This was a tragic loss of life. Demand an independent international investigation to find out the truth about the US bombing of Doctors Without Borders’ hospital.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday, US planes repeatedly bombed Doctors Without Borders’ medical center in northern Afghanistan. Heman Nagarathnam, who leads Doctors Without Borders programs in northern Afghanistan, described the terrifying scene:<\/p>\n

“The bombs hit and then we heard the plane circle round. There was a pause, and then more bombs hit. This happened again and again.<\/p>\n

“When I made it out from the office, the main hospital building was engulfed in flames. Those people that could had moved quickly to the building’s two bunkers to seek safety. But patients who were unable to escape burned to death as they lay in their beds.<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

International humanitarian law recognizes hospitals in conflict zones as safe places. Deliberately bombing a hospital without evidence of any enemy combatants inside is a war crime.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the head of US forces in Afghanistan told US Senators that the airstrike “mistakenly struck” the building. But Doctors Without Borders says that the facility’s purpose was well-communicated to US and Afghan officials before and during the attack.<\/p>\n

Staff and patients should have been safe in the hospital. Help find out what went so horribly wrong.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

An investigation into whether the United States has committed a serious crime cannot be run by the US. That’s why we are demanding an impartial, international investigation.<\/p>\n

The families of these victims deserve the truth. Tell the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations to launch an independent investigation of the airstrike right now.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

With gratitude,<\/p>\n

Chris B.
\nThe Care2 Petitions Team<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This weekend, a US airstrike claimed the lives of ten humanitarians from Doctors Without Borders and 12 patients \u2014 including three children. Sign the Petition The staff came from all over the world, offering their time and talents to heal the people of Afghanistan’s war-torn Kunduz province. Patients journeyed from miles away for medical and […]<\/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-48585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48585","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=48585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}