Sudan Air
Force Bombs
Hospital Run by Doctors Without Borders
by Jordan Schachtel 17 Jun 2014
On Monday, a hospital in Sudan used by members of the internationally recognized NGO
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was hit by Sudanese
air force bombing runs.
Doctors Without Borders said in a statement, "As bombs
struck the village
of Farandalla on June 16,
two hit the MSF hospital there. Five people were wounded in the village, and
one MSF staff member was injured at the hospital. We are shocked that a medical
facility can be bombed, especially since it was clearly identified with a flag
and a cross on the roof."
MSF said an emergency room, a dressing
room, the pharmacy, and the hospital’s kitchen were all heavily damaged in the
bombing run.
Sudanese officials denied that the
incident happened. “We did not attack any hospital there because our target is
not civilians," said a Sudanese military spokseman.
It is the second time a bombing of a
hospital occurred in the past few weeks.
US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said that since April, the Sudanese
government has purposefully targeted schools and hospitals with hundreds of air
strikes.
A joint statement last week between the
US, UK, and Norway said Sudan “continues to wage war and target civilians in
Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile and bears primary responsibility for
intensifying the conflict in Darfur.”
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir is wanted
by the International Criminal Court, charged with committing war crimes in Darfur.
Samantha Power
Samantha
Power is the United Nations U.S. ambassador for
the Barack Obama administration, was Barack Obama’s aide, a director at the International
Rescue Committee, and a board member for the International
Crisis Group.
Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee, the Human Rights
Watch, the Center for American
Progress, and the Millennium Promise.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to
Promote Open Society, a benefactor at the Human Rights
Watch, a supporter for the Center for American
Progress, is a board member for the International
Crisis Group, and the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Human Rights
Watch, the Center for American
Progress, and Doctors Without
Borders.
Joan R.
Platt is a director at the Human Rights Watch,
and was a director at the Save Darfur Coalition.
John
Prendergast is a fellow at the Center for American
Progress, and a co-founder for the Satellite
Sentinel Project.
Satellite
Sentinel Project monitors activities of Sudan, and South Sudan.
Angelina
Jolie was a director at the Millennium Promise,
and is a co-founder of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation.
Jolie/Pitt
Foundation was a funder for Doctors Without
Borders.
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