Doctors Without Borders Spokesperson Says US Knew Coordinators Of Hospital

by Listener Saturday, Oct. 03, 2015 at 8:37 PM

Doctors Without Borders reported that the attack by US planes on their hospital in Afghanistan did not stop for 45 minutes after the call.


A Doctors Without Borders spokesperson spoke on All Things Considered of NPR of the killing of 19 people in a hospital in Afghanistan by American airstrikes. She said that the hospital had been in existence for 4 years, that it had served 22,000 people in 2015 so far, that reports that 18 'terrorists' were in the building were unfounded, unless the US military was disregarding the international law which classifies wounded soldiers as protected and that the US Government had had the hospital coordinates for several years, that the hospitalwas clearly marked for airplanes, and that though the hospital had called the USG 15 minutes into the attack, it did not stop for 45 minutes more.


http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/afghanistan-msf-staff-killed-hospital-partially-destroyed-kunduz