Fourth story in four days

[mme_hardy]

The United States admits that a U.S. special operations unit called in the airstrike on the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital. It killed 22 people.

Comments

[recessional]

....Jesus fucking Christ.

[lexin]

Oh, no. I don't have words, I really don't.

[neotoma]

I'd certainly like to see someone court-martialed for this. There's no excuse for firing on a known hospital.

[nineveh_uk]

So, basically lying about what happened until they realised they weren't going to be able to keep it up. It's really appalling.

[vom_marlowe]

I am genuinely surprised it hasn't happened before this. The military industrial complex has been rotten to the core for over a decade; until people get court-martialed for firing on weddings, torturing innocents for intel, and blowing up hospitals, not to mention using civilians for real-life shooting games a la WWII, it's going to keep happening. We've been committing war crimes for a long, long time.

[sabotabby]

Well, that's a story I actually believe. They don't care. And for once—because this is MSF and not some anonymous local hospital—they might get called out for it.

[resonant.livejournal.com]

Will the soldiers and their direct chains of command be taken in front of the International Criminal Court directly, or will the UN convene a War Crimes tribunal?

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Oh my god. I'm so sickened by this.