Wednesday, October 7, 2015

"collateral damage" --a euphemism for "murder"!






Americans bomb hospital in effort to retake Kunduz from the Taliban.

The Quebec City-born president of Doctors Without Borders offered up harrowing details of the attack on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, saying "patients burned alive in their beds."
"This was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva conventions," said Joanne Liu, president MSF International. "This cannot be tolerated."

"If we let this go, as if was a non-event, we are basically giving a blank check to any countries who are at war," she concluded. 
Then "war has no rules!"

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/kunduz-airstrike-doctors-without-borders-wants-unprecedented-probe-n439856

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/world/europe/kunduz-afghanistan-hospital-doctors-without-borders.html?referer=http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=3&rct=j&q=THE%20NATIONAL%20%7C%20Oct%203%2C%202015%20%7C%202%3A50%20Doctors%20Without%20Borders%20reacts%20to%20attack%20on%20Afghan%20hospital&ved=0CCIQqQIwAmoVChMIsOSw0tOwyAIVEzKICh0eRw2O&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2015%2F10%2F08%2Fworld%2Feurope%2Fkunduz-afghanistan-hospital-doctors-without-borders.html&usg=AFQjCNHntThFExiN4jLBeeJmPojHG_1UcQ

https://theintercept.com/2015/10/06/why-bombing-kunduz-hospital-was-probably-a-war-crime/

13 comments:

  1. watch CBC documentary: " Canada in Iraq: the hidden war" about civilian casualties

    http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/m/episodes/2015-2016/canada-in-iraq-the-hidden-war

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  2. humanitarian group murdered by US

    MSF Report Details Horrific Carnage as US Bombed Hospital

    http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/11/05/new-msf-report-details-horrific-carnage-us-bombed-hospital

    http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/563b408ee4b0307f2cac20dc

    http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/article/msf-releases-internal-review-kunduz-hospital-attack

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    1. not a crime against humanity;American military acquits itself of wrongdoing

       Pentagon report on Kunduz hospital massacre whitewashed as "unintentional human error".No one accountable.
      It was just an "accident".

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    2. if bombing a medical faclity is not a "war crime"... ,then the word "atrocity" is meaningless!

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    3. Isn't killing innocent people the definition of "terrorism"!

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  3. more atrocities:

    50 civilian aid workers killed in airstrikes wch deliberately  target five hospitals and school in Syria.

    http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/syria-msf-hospital-bombing-1.3448514

    UN response to airstrikes on civilian targets in Syria

    UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon says almost 50 civilians have been killed and many more wounded in missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in northern Syria, as Russian-backed government troops intensified their push toward the rebel stronghold of Aleppo.UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Monday that victims of the attacks included children.He quoted the secretary general as calling the attacks "blatant violations of international laws" that "are further degrading an already devastated health care system

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/15/airstrike-destroys-msf-clinic-northern-syria

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  5. Aleppo massacre of childrens hospital run by Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders.
    Syrian government airstrike targets sick children and the doctors that treat them.
    At least 61 killed in Aleppo airstrikes, including Doctors Without Borders staff, patients in 'deliberate' hospital hit



    http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/airstikes-aleppo-hospital-1.3556632

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/28/last-pediatrician-in-rebel-held-aleppo-killed-in-syrian-regime-a/

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  6. Greatest humanitarian crises since WW2

    Civil war between Syrian regime and rebels continues

    What happened to the ceasefire agreement. between US and Russia?

    Russian bombing of UN humanitarian aid convoy (trying to bring relief to the starving population of Alleppo) is a war crime.
    Twenty innocent humanitarian workers murdered.
    http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/middleeast/syria-aid-convoys-attacked/


    Yesterday US airstrike killed 60 Syrian government soldiers

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/russia-and-syria-blame-us-led-coalition-for-deadly-strike-on-syrian-troops/2016/09/17/8dabf5d6-7d03-11e6-8064-c1ddc8a724bb_story.html

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  7. The "best of humanity" snuffed out! by ,"operational error"!


    https://www.abc.net.au/News/2024-04-05/Israeli-airstrike-gaza-aid-workers-kiled-what-we-know/103666878

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  8. Why does bombing civilians — despite laws against it — remain a military tactic?

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/history-of-bombing-civilians-military-tactic-1.7176527

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  9. The Hadditha massacre in Iraq:

    MG: In November of 2005, a small group of U.S. Marines killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children in what became known as the Haditha massacre. No one was held accountable for that. Coming up, we'll speak with the investigative journalist Madeleine Baran, who has led a four-year exhaustive search for answers from the military justice system. She hosts the podcast In the Dark, and we'll talk to her about what she uncovered in that work coming up. I'm Matt Galloway. You're listening to The Current. Stay with us.

    [Music: Fades up]

    Why was no one held accountable for the Haditha Massacre?
    Guests: Madeleine Baran

    MG: Hello. I'm Matt Galloway and you're listening to The Current.

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  10. Don't forget the My lai massacre in Viet Nam!

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_language

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