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US: Strike on Afghanistan MSF hospital not a war crime
The US military has said that a deadly air strike on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan last year was a mistake and therefore not a war crime.	B	Afghan hospital strike
Technical and human error led to the attack, General Joseph Votel said on Friday as he presented the results of an internal investigation into the October 3 incident in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz.	B	Afghan hospital strike
At least 42 people, including 24 patients, 14 staff and four caretakers, were killed and 37 others wounded in the air strike, which destroyed the MSF hospital building and prompted widespread condemnation from human rights groups.	O	O
The personnel involved did not know that they were striking a medical facility, the investigation report concluded.	O	O
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The hospital was mistaken for another building controlled by the Taliban, Votel told reporters at the Pentagon."	O	O
The intended target was an insurgent-controlled site which was approximately 400 metres away from the MSF Trauma Center.	O	O
The hospital was on a list of buildings not to target, but the aircraft crew did not have access to the list owing to problems with a radio system, he added.	O	O
The investigation determined that all members of both the ground force and the AC-130 air crew were unaware that the aircraft was firing on a medical facility throughout the engagement, Votel said.	O	O
The investigation ultimately concluded that this tragic incident was caused by a combination of human errors, compounded by process and equipment failures.	B	Afghan hospital strike
The label war crimes is typically reserved for intentional acts - intentionally targeting civilians or intentionally targeting protected objects or locations.	O	O
MSF said it was reviewing the report to determine if it addressed questions that remained after the attack, but the international medical charity said it was not satisfied with an investigation carried out only by the military rather than an independent body.	O	O
Today's briefing amounts to an admission of an uncontrolled military operation in a densely populated urban area, during which US forces failed to follow the basic laws of war," MSF President Meinie Nicolai said in a statement.	B	U.S. troops
It is incomprehensible that, under the circumstances described by the US, the attack was not called off.	I	U.S. troops
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The US forces cannot ""escape their responsibilities on the battlefield simply by ruling out the intent to attack a protected structure""."	I	U.S. troops
Staff disciplinedSixteen military personnel, including a general officer, were singled out for discipline, but none will face criminal charges, Votel said.	O	O
Punishments included suspension and removal from command, letters of reprimand, counselling and retraining, the military said.	O	O
Five people were ordered out of Afghanistan.	O	O
Exact details about punishments and who was involved were withheld owing to privacy concerns.	O	O
The US will also make payments to the victims and their families and spend $5.7m on rebuilding the hospital, the DPA news agency reported.	O	O
The military was also instituting reforms to prevent such mistakes in the future, including changes into how its no-strike list is accessed.	O	O
US President Barack Obama had been briefed on the report, spokesman Josh Earnest said.	O	O
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Doctors Without Borders called for the attack to be named a warcrime
The Pentagon has confirmed that 16 US military staff who bombed a hospital in Afghanistan last year have been disciplined.	O	O
The attack on the hospital in Kunduz last October left at least 42 people dead.	O	O
The Pentagon confirmed on Friday that the attack, authorized by General John Campbell, the US Commander in Afghanistan, was the result of human error and was not a war crime because it was “unintentional”.16 staff have either been suspended or received lesser sentences.	B	Afghan hospital strike
No one faces criminal charges.	O	O
It also said the Doctors Without Borders hospital, known by its French acronym MSF, was properly entered on a “no-strike” list yet the gunship crew did not have access to that list.	O	O
Army General Joseph Votel, commander at US Central Command, told reporters on Friday that there is a “constant effort” underway to review their processes and the aircraft that was used during the attack.	O	O
“This was not a systemic problem, this was a failure at that point,” he said, regarding a faulty radio antennae system on the plane that would have told the crew of no-strike areas.	O	O
Nato-backed Afghan forces were fighting with insurgents for control of the northern provincial capital one month after the Taliban seized the city.	O	O
The strike was authorized under the rules of “self-defence”.	O	O
Mr Votel insisted that when the air crew were notified they were firing at a hospital, they withdrew fire.	O	O
“There is a lot on the ground, it’s a fast moving situation.	O	O
We have young leaders trying to make the right decision in a heated combat and sometimes it comes up wrong,” he said.	O	O
After the bombs started to fall, panicked hospital staff called and send text messages asking the US forces to stop.	O	O
The plane crew took 17 minutes to react.	O	O
MSF also said it repeatedly gave its coordinates of its trauma center in Kunduz to the US military as late as 29 September to avoid being bombed.	O	O
This did not prevent the accident from happening just four days later.	O	O
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