One month on
But Liu said appeals from MSF to about 76 governments asking for backing for an impartial investigation to clarify what went wrong and prevent any future such tragedy had failed to win support.
“The silence is embarrassing,” Liu told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview on Monday one month after the attack.
The hospital is closed.
“They had our co-ordinates, they knew what MSF was doing, we had been there for four years. The only structure that was lit up in the middle of the night (that week) was our hospital,” Liu said, adding there was a clear MSF logo on the roof.
“All the parties had the co-ordinates … which were reaffirmed directly after the first strike. Despite that it continued.”
She dismissed any suggestion that it could have been a case of collateral damage as nothing else was targeted that night, or that the Taliban had been fighting from the compound.
On this next statement we can all agree
“There is this numbness about violence in war zones today,” she said. “We do think that, yes, even wars have rules, and we do think it’s important to reaffirm some of those rules.”
The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission is ready to go, but cannot do so with the US and Afghan governments agreeing to its mission.
The longer the time between the event and the report the more the meh, move on, look forward. Now reduced to the backpages if indeed anywhere, its so old, forget about it.
Then the carnage keeps on going, hospitals continue to be attacked, innocents bombed and if this story is true
Syrian rebel groups have locked people in cages and driven them to areas near Damascus to use as human shields against heavy government air raids.
A video posted online by the Shaam News Network, an opposition media outlet, showed prisoners in iron cages being driven on the back of pick-up trucks through what it said was the area of Eastern Ghouta, northeast of the capital.
Numbness to the horrors of war and the crimes committed in the name of something or other can only come through silence and disconnect. The evil is not being contained it is spreading, affecting and distorting all around it.
We have the major powers all playing silly buggers in a region that was explosive enough without their assistance in the carnage. Some of their allies are using this as cover for their own agendas to spread the conflict further.
Always remember to:
Look forward not back.
Don't punish anyone for their crimes.
It is after all such a good way to repeat the errors of the past. In this we have been doing a "good job".
Now would someone please enlighten me as to what good a few special forces are going to do in Syria when we don't know who we are meant to be supporting?
Oh and by the way did you know the The Taliban are now fighting ISIL in Afghanistan?
One must all remember that the weapons are coming from somewhere, the funding for these wars is pretty generous. Who is buying the black market oil, who are the main dealers?
There is profit here.