Wednesday, October 7, 2015

President Obama apologises to MSF as they call for independent inquiry into US airstrike on hospital

US President Barack Obama has apologised to Medecins Sans Frontiers for the U.S. air attack that hit the group's medical clinic in Afghanistan
The aid agency is seeking to invoke a never-used independent body to investigate the bombing which killed 22 people.
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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