Médecins Sans Frontières Petitioned the White House — Regarding the American Attack on its Kunduz Hospital — a Comment about the Failure of International Law

© 2015 Peter Free

 

11 December 2015

 

 

We kill your medical providers and their patients inside a marked hospital . . .

 

Then you have to come to us to plead for token justice.

 

 

Is it good to be Emperor?

 

From the Doctors without Borders website:

 

 

The international medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today delivered a petition signed by more than 547,000 people to the White House, calling for U.S. President Obama to consent to an independent investigation of the deadly U.S. air strikes on MSF's trauma hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. [See here.]

 

The airstrikes on 3 October killed at least 30 people, including 14 MSF staff members, and destroyed MSF’s hospital.

 

The MSF petition calls for President Obama to consent to an investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC), the one body established specifically to investigate potential violations of international humanitarian law under the Geneva Conventions.

 

"Only a full accounting by an independent, international body can restore our confidence in the commitments of the United States to uphold the laws of war, which prohibit such attacks on hospitals in the strongest terms," said Jason Cone, executive director of MSF-USA.

 

"It is not sufficient for the perpetrators of attacks on medical facilities to be the only investigators."

 

© 2015 Médecins Sans Frontières, Kunduz: MSF delivers petition calling for investigation into hospital attack, msf.org (09 December 2015) (excerpts)

 

 

The moral? — The idea that the wronged have to petition the Alleged Murderer in Chief for justice is laughable

 

The U.S. Imperium’s militaristically exercised heft does nothing beneficial for our societal ethics, justice or common sense. Perpetual war chews the pretended reasons that start it and defecates carnage in its wake. The Kunduz hospital bombing demonstrates the failure of international law to process obvious wrongs.

 

It should not surprise us that some nations grow violently restive under the United States’ hypocritical grasp.