Imagine living in the middle of a war — a war waged by a foreign superpower that has dragged on now for almost 15 years. Next, imagine the Taliban just overtook your city. Finally, imagine the only hospital in your city, which was treating over 100 people per day, is bombed to rubble by that foreign superpower, forcing the international humanitarian organization running it to withdraw.
This is what the people of Kunduz, Afghanistan, are living through.
On Oct. 3, a U.S.-led NATO coalition bombed the only hospital in the entire northeastern region of Afghanistan. Doctors Without Borders (known internationally in French as Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF), the humanitarian aid organization that ran the medical center, called the bombing an “attack on the Geneva Conventions,” referring to the laws of war finalized after World War II.