KUNDUZ: Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), an international humanitarian medical organisation, on Monday termed the justification of Afghan puppet government for US air strike on hospital as ‘disgusting’ and called it an ‘admission of a war crime’.
MSF said the statement implies US and Afghan forces decided to bomb a hospital because of claims Taliban members were inside.
The US is still investigating the Saturday’s incident in Kunduz.
Afghan government forces, backed by the US-led coalition are engaged in a battle to retake the northern city of Kunduz from Taliban fighters who seized it last month.
On Saturday the Afghan defence ministry said armed terrorists were using the hospital as a position to target Afghan forces and civilians.
MSF replied that those statements implied that Afghan and US forces working together had decided to raze the fully functional hospital to the ground with more than 180 staff and patients inside.
‘This amounts to an admission of a war crime. This utterly contradicts the initial attempts of the US government to minimise the attack as ‘collateral damage.”
