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Afghan Hospital Bombing: MSF Demands Investigation Under Geneva Conventions

posted by n1 on Thursday October 08 2015, @06:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the known-unknowns-of-collateral-damage dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) hospital was bombed by the US. Result, 12 dead staff members and 10 dead patients. The coordinates of the hospital had been communicated to the US forces before to avoid mistakes. The US admits the attack was a decision. MSF is now seeking an independent inquiry.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by art guerrilla on Friday October 09 2015, @12:28AM

    by art guerrilla (3082) on Friday October 09 2015, @12:28AM (#247184)

    "It is drilled into you starting in basic and continuing throughout your career: You do not fire on places of worship. You do not fire on schools. You do not fire on Medical personnel or buildings. Hell you do not fire at an enemy once you have passed him. Once you pass him he is a pow."

    and yet, you spent the opening of your comment saying how you had NO CLUE where/who you were bombing the shit out of, so how do you square that circle ? ? ?

    um, did you happen to think that *maybe* Empire has its iron fist so organized such that private nobody has NO EFFECTIVE means of making their OWN MORAL decisions when it comes to matters of who to kill ? ? ? which you claim the military instructs you to to consider humanitarian factors, war krimes law, etc; and i am highly skeptical that 'training' amounts to 1/1000th of the training to kill instinctively and without hesitation under orders from a superior officer (sic)...
    again, NO INDIVIDUAL 'moral' decision welcomed or tolerated under those circumstances, which is ALL circumstances...

    tell me ONE TIME in the his story of the us military a soldier has been rewarded for refusing orders to kill people he thought not valid targets ? ? ?
    ONCE...

    AND, if you find that one -or so- times (highly skeptical again), tell me what that paucity reflects...

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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by FatPhil on Friday October 09 2015, @12:25PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Friday October 09 2015, @12:25PM (#247366) Homepage
    There's even a documentary about a high-profile case: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093894/

    This is of course why those who are giving the orders are 1000 times as responsible as those who are drilled into obeying orders. Big heads should roll. The guys on the ground probably feel pretty shitty already about their involvement. Ever seen the suicide rates for vet's?
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