{UAH} US "ROGUE NATION" TO EVADE WAR CRIME CHARGES FOR KUNDUZ BOMBING -NGO

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Afghan Peace Volunteers Co-Founder Dr. Hakim claims that the United States will unlikely be charged with war crimes for the Saturday’s bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan because it acts as a rouge nation impervious to international human rights laws.

WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The United States will unlikely be charged with war crimes for the Saturday’s bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan because it acts as a rouge nation impervious to international human rights laws, Afghan Peace Volunteers Co-Founder Dr. Hakim, also known as Wee Teck Young, told Sputnik.

"Unbiased accountability [for the Kunduz bombing] is tough if not impossible… since the United States behaves more like a ‘rogue’ state in not ratifying the International Humanitarian Law and not joining the International Criminal Court which prosecutes war crimes," Dr. Hakim said on Tuesday.

On Saturday, the US military killed at least 22 medical staff and wounded dozens of others in a bombing raid on a Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

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On Monday, State Department spokesperson Mark Toner told reporters that the United States would oppose attempts to refer the Kunduz tragedy to the International Criminal Court.

The US bombing of the Kunduz hospital is a war crime, Dr. Hakim added, because it violates international laws, including the Geneva Conventions and the Nuremberg principles. Yet, there are many loopholes that the United States can abuse to avoid prosecution.

"On a personal level, there should be accountability not only for the bombing of the MSF Hospital in Kunduz, but also of the killing of all Afghan civilians over the past 14 years, including at wedding parties," Dr. Hakim added.

The process of accountability should be applied equally, regardless if the victims are Afghans or relatives of US politicians.

"The process of accountability should be the same as those that would be applied should Obama’s daughters or David Cameron’s children be bombed to death for whatever reasons while they were receiving treatment in any hospital anywhere in the world," he argued.

On Tuesday, US Commander of the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, Gen. John Campbell, acknowledged that the US decision to launch an airstrike on the hospital in Kunduz was a mistake.

 

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