MSF says global body asked to investigate U.S. bombing of Afghan hospital

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Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Wednesday that an international humanitarian commission has been formally asked to investigate the U.S. bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, that killed 22 people including 12 of its staff. The medical charity had been demanding that the independent humanitarian commission created under the Geneva Conventions in 1991 be activated for the first time to handle the inquiry into the Oct. 3 air strike. MSF, which said it could not rely on U.S., NATO and Afghan internal investigations to examine the bombing, said the Swiss-based International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission had been activated at the request of a state that it did not name.




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