Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres is seeking to invoke a never-used body to investigate the US airstrike on its hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz.
MSF said it did not trust internal military inquiries into the bombing that killed at least 22 people and is calling for an independent assessment.
The International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) was set up in 1991 under the Geneva Conventions.
MSF is calling the attack a war crime but chair of the US Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator John McCain, says that's an insult.
Our US correspondent Kate Fisher reports
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Speaking in New York, MSF's Executive Director Jason Cone said the organisation wants to establish whether what happened is indeed a war crime:
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Speaking in New York, MSF's Executive Director Jason Cone said the organisation wants to establish whether what happened is indeed a war crime:
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Speaking in New York, MSF's Executive Director Jason Cone said the group wants to ascertain exactly what the humanitarian conventions are in areas of war:
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Speaking in New York, MSF's Executive Director Jason Cone says it's important that the little known commission does its job:
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Speaking in New York, MSF's Executive Director Jason Cone wants the White House to give its permission for the independent enquiry:
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