Obama Apologises to 'Doctors Without Borders' For Deadly U.S. Airstrike on Afghan Hospital

Posted by Samuel on Thu 08th Oct, 2015 - tori.ng

American President Obama has called the chief of Doctors Without Borders, an international humanitarian-aid non-governmental organization, to apologize for the airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

US President, Barack Obama

The president spoke by telephone with Doctors Without Borders International President Dr. Joanne Liu, to apologize and express his condolences for the organization's staff and patients who were killed and injured when a U.S. military airstrike mistakenly struck a field hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan over the weekend, Earnest told reporters during the White House press briefing.

The president promised a full investigation of the incident. In addition to a Department of Defense investigative process that is already underway, there also will be an investigation that is conducted by NATO and a third joint investigation carried out by U.S. military personnel alongside Afghan security officials into the deadly airstrike.

Doctors Without Borders Doctors renewed its call on Wednesday for an unprecedented international and independent humanitarian fact-finding commission.

"We received President Obama's apology today for the attack against our trauma hospital in Afghanistan," Liu said in a statement.

"However, we reiterate our ask that the U.S. government consent to an independent investigation led by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission to establish what happened in Kunduz, how it happened, and why it happened."