Executive Director of Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Jason Cohn, was asked by a PBS interviewer to respond.A senior defense official told Fox News on Saturday that the Taliban have been in control of the area around the hospital since Monday, guarding the building and drawing U.S. special operations forces into a firefight in the area. U.S. forces called in the airstrike because they were under fire and needed cover, the official said.
Taliban fighters were among those being treated at the hospital, a defense official told Fox News.
While defense officials told Fox News they “regret the loss” of innocent life, they say the incident could have been avoided if the Taliban had not used the hospital as a base, and the civilians there as human shields.
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And at last, can we expect war crimes trials? Yeah, right."We were not under threat [by the Taliban] in any way.
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We were in complete contact with all sides of the fighting. They accepted that this was a facility that was treating anyone who was wounded.
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The gates of the compound were closed all night, so that no one who was not staff, a patient or a caretaker was inside the hospital when the bombing happened. It's also important to keep in mind that according to humanitarian law, any injured person in the hospital is considered a non-combatant whatever side they may have fought for before. In any case, bombing a fully functional hospital can never be justified.
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We need answers. And we need answers not just from the US military, but we need some kind of independent investigation that's credible. And we don't want to just hear that this was some kind of mistake and that there's just collateral damage. They had EVERY information that they needed to prevent this loss of life, and it's one of the darkest days in our organization's history, and we will accept nothing less than a full transparent independent investigation."
PBS interview: Jason Cone, MSF Executive Director
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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