In this photo released by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on October 3, 2015, Afghan MSF staff are seen in one of the remaining parts of the MSF hospital in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan, after it was hit by a US airstrike. ©AFP
The international community is reeling in the aftermath of a U.S. air strike which pounded a medical facility belonging to the international aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres, a.k.a. Doctors Without Borders, relentlessly for 30 minutes in the Afghan city of Kunduz Saturday, leading to the deaths of at least 22 people: 12 medical staff and 10 patients (including 3 children who were being treated). An additional 37 people have been injured. This attack, which the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has called “utterly tragic, inexcusable, and possibly even criminal“, occurred in spite of the fact that the medical aid agency had…
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WTF?! Unreal!
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Yep, I’m pretty much speechless.
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It is a war crime~
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even though the concept is an oxymoron, because war itself is a crime~
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I concur.
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This is absolute insanity. Gobsmacked.
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Doesn’t it make you wonder what other atrocities are committed by government in our name which we never hear about?
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That’s a terrific point.
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