{"id":284,"date":"2017-10-28T02:33:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T07:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2017-10-28T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T03:35:09","slug":"bombing-hospitals-is-a-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/28\/bombing-hospitals-is-a-war-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Bombing Hospitals is a WAR CRIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First published on October 23, 2015<\/p>\n<p><strong>Earlier this month, just days after the 14th anniversary of the United States&#8217; longest-ever war, its invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Our government killed at least 19 people, burning many of them alive in their hospital beds.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Afghan governments told numerous contradictory stories about the story, and President Obama has refused to support the independent investigation demanded by Doctors Without Borders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protesters in Chicago organized by&nbsp;Voices For Creative Non-Violence gathered outside of Stroger Cook County shortly after the attack under the slogan,&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>&#8220;Bombing Hospitals is a War Crime.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/6bb752ba-4b41-4025-82a2-20f03c4965f2.jpg\" alt=\"Bombing Hospitals is a War Crime\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"272\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/24397e05-8447-4d51-84c8-9f318cb8351a.jpg\" width=\"267\" align=\"none\" height=\"270\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/437fbc01-beb2-4134-97cf-eb4d2b1176c5.jpg\" width=\"154\" align=\"none\" height=\"270\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/57c194ba9b4712be34160a911\/images\/ded3422d-d8c1-4240-b8cb-9c4b97a8d1a4.jpg\" width=\"440\" align=\"none\" height=\"181\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8230;and watch a short film here.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First published on October 23, 2015 Earlier this month, just days after the 14th anniversary of the United States&#8217; longest-ever war, its invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. bombed a Doctors <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/28\/bombing-hospitals-is-a-war-crime\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,65],"tags":[96,108,31,67],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-imperialism","category-war","tag-afghanistan","tag-imperialism","tag-violence","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gayliberation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}