{"id":13127,"date":"2015-10-07T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13127"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T14:48:34","slug":"snowden-has-a-simple-solution-to-get-to-the-bottom-of-the-us-afghan-bombing-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13127","title":{"rendered":"Snowden Has A Simple Solution To Get To The Bottom Of The US Afghan Bombing &#8220;War Crime&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2015-10-07\/snowden-has-simple-solution-get-bottom-us-afghan-bombing-war-crime\" target=\"_blank\">Snowden Has A Simple Solution To Get To The Bottom Of The US Afghan Bombing &#8220;War Crime&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Overnight, Medecins Sans Frontiers, or the &#8220;Doctors without Borders&#8221; medical group which suffered a tremendous loss of life at the hands of US bombardment this past Saturday, stepped up its criticism of what it has previously called a US &#8220;war crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/10\/07\/us-afghanistan-attack-msf-idUSKCN0S10SX20151007\">Reuters reports<\/a>, earlier today it called for an independent international fact-finding commission to be established to investigate the U.S. bombing of its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, which it deems a war crime, and which it would use to decide whether or not to file criminal charges, although it was unclear against\u00a0<em>whom<\/em>\u00a0precisely:\u00a0<em>perhaps 2009 Nobel Peace Prize winner Barack Obama?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why independent: because as MSF said &#8220;<strong>we cannot rely on internal investigations by U.S, NATO and Afghan forces<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the medical charity said that the commission, which can be set up at the request of a single state under the Geneva Convention, would gather facts and evidence from the United States, NATO and Afghanistan. MSF said it sent a letter on Tuesday to the 76 countries who signed up to the additional protocol of the Geneva Convention that set up the standing commission in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>There is one problem: neither the United States nor Afghanistan are signatories and Francoise Saulnier, MSF lead counsel MSF, said that the consent of the states involved is necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck getting it.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming the US does &#8220;agree&#8221; to comply with this fact-finding mission, we expect the full data dump &#8211; after all the necessary scrubbing of the evidence of course &#8211; to take place, some time in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>For now, however, the MSF is not backing down: &#8220;If we let this go, we are basically giving a blank check to any countries at war,&#8221; MSF International President Joanne Liu told a news briefing in Geneva. &#8220;There is no commitment to an independent investigation yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MSF is in talks with Switzerland about convoking the international commission of independent experts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today we say enough, even war has rules,&#8221; Liu said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snowden Has A Simple Solution To Get To The Bottom Of The US Afghan Bombing &#8220;War Crime&#8221; Overnight, Medecins Sans Frontiers, or the &#8220;Doctors without Borders&#8221; medical group which suffered a tremendous loss of life at the hands of US bombardment this past Saturday, stepped up its criticism of what it has previously called a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2487,3306,9556,9413,9559,9555,683,775,819,5457,4318],"class_list":["post-13127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-afghanistan","tag-barack-obama","tag-doctors-without-borders","tag-kunduz","tag-medecins-sans-frontieres","tag-msf","tag-reuters","tag-switzerland","tag-twitter","tag-war-crime","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13128,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions\/13128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}