MSF finds US report ‘unacceptable’ on Kundoz hospital bombing

The international medical organization, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders  has considered the US investigation unacceptable about the  attack on the hospital in Kunduz.

Chairman of MSF in Afghanistan says questions are still remain unsolved about the US bombing and the amount of compensation to the victims’ families  by US is negligible.

Previously, MSF demanded a full and transparent account from the Coalition regarding its aerial bombing activities over Kunduz and also called for an independent investigation of the attack to ensure maximum transparency and accountability.

U.S. military report released on Friday said that the deadly U.S. air strike in Afghanistan last year that destroyed a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders did not amount to a war crime but was caused by human error, equipment failure and other factors.

Forty-two people were killed and 37 were wounded during an Oct. 3 strike that destroyed the hospital run by the international medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), known as Doctors Without Borders in English.

An initial U.S. investigation in November found that U.S. forces had meant to target a different building in the city of Kunduz and were led off-track by a technical error in their aircraft’s mapping system.

According to investigation documents released Friday, the attack on the the Doctors without Borders hospital was the final event in a breakdown of communication between a number of units on the ground and in the sky. The failures compounded, resulting in the misidentification of the hospital as a Taliban command center.

The incident, categorized by Votel as a “tragedy,” provides a glimpse into the potential pitfalls of how the United States now fights its wars abroad.

MSF is an international medical organization and first worked in Afghanistan in 1980. MSF opened Kunduz Trauma Center in August 2011 to provide high quality, free medical and surgical care to victims of trauma such as traffic accidents, as well as those with conflict related injuries from bomb blasts or gunshots.

In Afghanistan, MSF supports the Ministry of Public Health in Ahmad Shah Baba hospital in eastern Kabul, Dasht-e-Barchi maternity in western Kabul and Boost hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province. In Khost, in the east of the country, MSF runs a maternity hospital. MSF relies only on private funding for its work in Afghanistan and does not accept money from any government.