Doctors Without Borders wants a never-before-used mechanism of the Geneva Conventions to investigate
the U.S. airstrike
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/calls-for-an-international-investigation-into-kunduz-airstrike/409369/
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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) wants a never-before-used mechanism of the Geneva Conventions to investigate the U.S. airstrike on its medical facility in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed 22 people.
“The U.S. attack on the MSF hospital in Kunduz was the biggest loss of life for our organization in an airstrike,” Dr. Joanne Liu, the group’s international president, said in Geneva on Wednesday. “Tens of thousands of people in Kunduz can no longer receive medical care now when they need it most. Today we say: enough. Even war has rules.”
MSF wants the airstrike to be investigated by an International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission—established in the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions. The commission, which was set up in 1991, is the only permanent body that specifically investigates violations of international humanitarian law.
“The tool exists and it is time it is activated,” Liu said.
The body’s rules state one of 76 signatory states must sponsor an inquiry. But for one to get formally underway, it must be endorsed by the parties to the conflict, in this case the U.S. and Afghanistan. Neither country is likely to support such a move.
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Why would they not support such a move???
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