The attack on Kunduz hospital in Afghanistan suggests that humanitarian work is fitting more perilous,but original research reveals the full picture is more complexOn 3 October last year an AC-130 gunship operating for the US Air Force made five bombing runs over a nondescript hospital in the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan. Typically loaded with Gatling cannons, or howitzers and Hellfire missiles,the AC-130 hit and destroyed the hospital’s emergency wing.[br]It quickly became clear that this wasn’t a military success, but one of the worst attacks on humanitarian aid workers in history. Médecins Sans Frontière (MSF) reported that 14 of their staff members were killed, and along with at least 24 patients and four caretakers. MSF called the attack proof of the global erosion of the rules of war,and many decried the event as evidence that the lives of aid workers are ever-more threatened.
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Source: theguardian.com