MSF move for international probe into Kunduz strike

CHARITY Medécins Sans Frontières (MSF) hopes to launch an independent fact-finding mission under the Geneva Conventions into the US air strike on its hospital in Afghanistan in which at least 22 people were killed.

The medical aid group said its call would mark the first time such a fact-finding mission would be commissioned under the Conventions. The group's international president Joanne Liu said that the weekend strike “was not just an attack on our hospital, it was an attack on the Geneva Conventions. This cannot be tolerated.”

Ms Liu said MSF was “working on the assumption of a possible war crime” but said its real goal is to establish facts about the incident and the chain of command, and clear up the rules of operation for humanitarian agencies that operate in conflict zones.