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Marking 7 years since US attack on MSF hospital in Kunduz

Tuesday, 04 October 2022 3:42 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 04 October 2022 3:42 PM ]

Rahmatullah Baghban

Press TV, Kabul

Back on October third 2015, this Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz was reduced to rubble after being hit by a US deadly airstrike. Some 211 shells were fired in the strike, lasting almost one hour. The charity hospital later announced that 42 civilians including staffers and patients were killed and dozens of others were wounded.

After initially denying the building being targeted, the United States eventually claimed responsibility for the airstrikes, justifying that it had been a serious and tragic mistake. The MSF called it a breach of international humanitarian law and a war crime, demanding for an independent probe. But an independent investigation or trial has never been conducted against the US forces’ atrocities.

Throughout the two-decade US invasion of Afghanistan, there had been more than 13,000 airstrikes conducted by American forces in the country. The US drone war on Afghanistan killed more than 4000 people, including women and children.

The US airstrike on the charity hospital in Kunduz is one of the many instances of American forces’ atrocities on Afghan soil. People here say the US should be held accountable for crimes it has committed in Afghanistan.

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