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From: Becky Bond, CREDO Action [mailto:act@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2015 9:35 AM
To: Miriam Vieni
Subject: Sign the petition: Investigate the U.S. bombing of a Doctors
Without Borders hospital
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Sign
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Tell President Obama and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter:
Immediately comply with the demands presented by Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in their official statement on the
grave violation of International Humanitarian Law at Kunduz:
'Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, MSF
demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be
conducted by an independent international body.'
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Dear Miriam,
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In the middle of the night on Saturday, a U.S. military plane "repeatedly
and very precisely" bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital filled with
doctors, nurses and wounded patients in Kunduz, Afghanistan.1
The airstrike killed twelve Doctors Without Borders staff members and ten
patients, including three children, and injured scores more. Some patients
literally burned alive in their hospital beds.2
So far, the Pentagon has only released incomplete and contradictory accounts
of what happened and why.
On Sunday, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) stated
that: "Under the clear presumption that a war crime has been committed, MSF
demands that a full and transparent investigation into the event be
conducted by an independent international body. Relying only on an internal
investigation by a party to the conflict would be wholly insufficient."3
The world needs to know how and why this grave violation of International
Humanitarian Law was committed. Those responsible for what we presume to be
an atrocious war crime must then face justice.4 Please join Doctors Without
Borders in calling for an immediate and independent international
investigation.
<http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/?t=4&akid=15813.967351.-mZS
uM> Tell President Obama and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter: We join
Doctors Without Borders and demand an investigation by an independent
international body into the U.S. airstrike on the Kunduz hospital. Click
here to sign the petition.
The Pentagon initially claimed that the hospital was hit by accident after
U.S. troops nearby came under fire and called in the airstrike, then later
changed its story and said that no U.S. troops were in the area and that
Afghan troops called in the strike.5
But the Pentagon's story simply doesn't add up. According to Doctors Without
Borders: "Not a single member of our staff reported any fighting inside the
MSF hospital compound prior to the U.S. airstrike on Saturday morning... We
reiterate that the main hospital building, where medical personnel were
caring for patients, was repeatedly and very precisely hit during each
aerial raid, while the rest of the compound was left mostly untouched."6
Further, "The bombing took place despite the fact that MSF had provided the
GPS coordinates of the trauma hospital to Coalition and Afghan military and
civilian officials as recently as Tuesday, September 29, [five days before
the airstrike] to avoid that the hospital be hit."7
Shockingly, the bombing continued for more than half an hour after Doctors
Without Borders staff began making frantic calls to U.S. and Afghan military
officials.
The Pentagon's claim that the hospital was bombed by accident is also
contradicted by statements by Afghan officials, who have tried to justify
the attack by claiming that the hospital was used by the Taliban for
military purposes. Doctors Without Borders responded to this reprehensible
claim with a statement saying:
MSF is disgusted by the recent statements coming from some Afghanistan
government authorities justifying the attack on its hospital in Kunduz.
These statements imply that Afghan and US forces working together decided to
raze to the ground a fully functioning hospital with more than 180 staff and
patients inside because they claim that members of the Taliban were present.
This amounts to an admission of a war crime. This utterly contradicts the
initial attempts of the US government to minimize the attack as 'collateral
damage.'
There can be no justification for this abhorrent attack on our hospital that
resulted in the deaths of MSF staff as they worked and patients as they lay
in their beds. MSF reiterates its demand for a full transparent and
independent international investigation."8
The human cost of this crime far exceeds the staff and patients killed in
the airstrike. The hospital, which in 2014 treated 22,000 and performed more
than 5,900 surgical procedures, was the only free trauma care hospital in
northern Afghanistan, where the Afghan military and the Taliban are
currently engaged in heavy fighting. Doctors Without Borders has now closed
the hospital.9
Join us in demanding justice for Doctors Without Borders. Click the link
below to sign the petition:
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/justice_for_dwb/?t=6
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We cannot allow this horrific act to be swept under the rug, and, as the
Pentagon's shifting account of the attack shows, we can't trust the same
people who may have participated in a war crime to investigate it. We need
an independent investigation.
Thank you for taking action.
Becky Bond, Political Director
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Action from Working Assets
P.S.: CREDO members have long supported Doctors Without Borders with
donations from their mobile and credit card bills. We will continue to
support Doctors Without Borders and its mission to provide independent,
neutral and impartial medical aid in war zones and where its needed most.
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1. "Statement
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9950?t=9&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> on Kunduz
Hospital Bombing," Doctors Without Borders, October 4, 2015
2. "Afghanistan:
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9951?t=10&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> MSF
Demands Explanations After Deadly Airstrikes Hit Hospital in Kunduz,"
Doctors Without Borders, October 3, 2015
3. "Statement
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9950?t=11&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> on Kunduz
Hospital Bombing," Doctors Without Borders, October 4, 2015
4. "Médecins
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9960?t=12&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> Sans
Frontières (MSF) denounces blatant breach of International Humanitarian
Law," Doctors Without Borders, October 6, 2015
5. Thomas Gibbons-Neff, "U.S.
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9952?t=13&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> military
struggles to explain how it wound up bombing Doctors Without Borders
hospital," Washington Post, October 5, 2015
6. "Statement
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9950?t=14&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> on Kunduz
Hospital Bombing," Doctors Without Borders, October 4, 2015
7. "Afghanistan:
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9951?t=15&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> MSF
Demands Explanations After Deadly Airstrikes Hit Hospital in Kunduz,"
Doctors Without Borders, October 3, 2015
8. MSF
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9953?t=16&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> Response
to Spurious Claims That Kunduz Hospital Was 'A Taliban Base'" Doctors
Without Borers, October 4, 2015
9. Alissa J. Rubin, "Doctors
<http://act.credoaction.com/go/9954?t=17&akid=15813.967351.-mZSuM> Without
Borders Says It Is Leaving Kunduz After Strike on Hospital," New York Times,
October 4, 2015
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