The 2015 US Airstrikes On Kunduz Hospital

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On October 3rd 2015, A US Air Force C-130 gunship aimed at a medical facility managed by the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Doctors With Borders, and bombed it for 29 minutes striking it 211 times. When it was over, 44 people were killed and 33 wounded. Meanwhile US and Afghanistan officials immediately conducted their own investigations and concluded that due to "electrical error" the hospital was mistaken for a Taliban outpost. However MSF officials would prove otherwise, earning US officials that the hospital was at the certain location coordinates they contacted US military officials just days prior to the attack. Many condemned this incident and called it applicable to war crimes, including many leading international law centers. However the United States would reject these accusations and reprimanded a number of its servicemen for "negligence" but kept their ranks and none were charged for any serious offenses. It isn't just one of many incidents where the United States conducted war crimes and crimes of aggression and not held accountable.

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