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Dasht-i-Leili massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan where between 250 and 3,000 (depending on sources) Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal truck containers, while being transferred by U.S. and Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in Afghanistan. Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death by Jamie Doran. Doran himself admitted in an interview with Stefan Steinberg that he in fact had absolutely no evidence that American troops were involved in the alleged shootings [2], but believes his sources as to the validity of the massacre charges. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dasht-i-Leili_massacre   (747 words)

ZNet Commentary: Dasht-E Leili By contrast, the Dasht-e Leili massacre was carried out by a U.S. client, with U.S. personnel at the killing sites, not interfering with the killing and in some accounts participating and showing signs of being in charge of operations. The neglect of Dasht-e Leili throughout the global structure of interest and power follows from these basic facts of U.S. (and British) support of the killers and partial direct as well as command responsibility for the killings. PHR and Amnesty International strongly urged the United States and UN to protect the Dasht-e Leili grave sites and to fund an investigation for war crimes there, but there was no response on behalf of these unworthy victims (or on behalf of mere justice). www.zmag.org /sustainers/content/2004-04/07herman.cfm   (1147 words)

List of massacres - Unipedia Additionally, the word massacre is often used for political or propaganda purposes, and the choice of whether to label an event a massacre may become a sensitive one; see, for example, the Kent State Massacre. Massacres in this sense do not typically apply to combatants, except figuratively, although the deliberate mass killings of prisoners of war are often considered massacres. Massacre has a number of meanings, but most commonly refers to individual events of deliberate and direct mass killing, especially of noncombatant civilians or other innocents that would qualify as war crimes or atrocities. www.unipedia.info /Massacre.html   (3075 words)

Convoy of Death The film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops were complicit in the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War. In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops. The film was researched by award-winning journalist Najibullah Quraishi, who was beaten almost to death when he tried to obtain video evidence of US Special Forces’ complicity in the massacre. informationclearinghouse.info /article3267.htm   (531 words)

CNN.com - U.N.: Massacre probe up to Afghans - August 21, 2002 The story of a mass grave in the Dasht-e Leili area was first reported early this year by the Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights, or PHR. In a written statement Tuesday, the United Nations said a preliminary investigation by a forensic team in May confirmed the existence of a mass grave in Dasht-e Leili and found that "the cause of death was consistent with death due to suffocation." Talk of an investigation into a mass grave in northern Afghanistan beyond the one a U.N. forensic team conducted in May is a tricky political subject between the United Nations and the new Afghan government. archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/central/08/21/afghanistan.grave   (720 words)

Islam and New Zealand Muslim community - Afghan massacre haunts Pentagon What makes this massacre different from atrocities carried out by the Taliban regime is the presence of US special forces in the area, both at Shiberghan and at Erganak, 200 miles away, where the Taliban prisoners were first loaded into lorries. We are dealing with incidents of massacres, human rights violations and foreign militants entering Afghanistan... Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, has called for an inquiry into the massacre, which appears to have taken place at night. www.nzmuslim.net /article186.html   (1325 words)

Project Censored Media democracy in action As far as the massacre in Mazar goes little has happened on the ground, except some of the witnesses are dead and some bodies have been exhumed and dumped elsewhere. A documentary entitled Massacre at Mazar released in 2002 by Scottish film producer, Jamie Doran, implicates U.S. troops in the torturing and deaths of approximately 3,000 men from Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan. Doran's documentary follows the finding of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), that concluded that there was evidence of the disposal of human remains at two mass gravesites near Mazar-i-Sharif. www.projectcensored.org /publications/2004/11.html   (1068 words)

In German TV documentary: Afghan officials confirm US role in massacre of Taliban prisoners The US State Department has consistently denied any American involvement in the massacre of prisoners in the desert near Mazar-i-Sharif by forces loyal to the commander of the Northern Alliance, General Rashid Dostum. There are indications of digging suggesting that an attempt is underway to destroy the evidence of a war crime. Shown on the ARD channel, the programme presented footage, including interviews with two Afghan government ministers who confirmed the presence of American troops during the transportation and killing of surrendered Taliban prisoners. wsws.org /articles/2003/mar2003/afgh-m17.shtml   (971 words)

Afghan Massacre--Convoy of Death available on video Film exposing Pentagon war crimes premieres in US A powerful film exposing the US role in the massacre of thousands of unarmed prisoners of war in Afghanistan was shown for the first time in the United States February 6. Doran has repeatedly demanded a speedy investigation into the massacre and action by the United Nations to protect the gravesites against an attempt to destroy the evidence. The filmmaker speculates that General Dostum is intent on keeping the tape as an “insurance policy,” threatening to use it to expose the US role in the killings if Washington and the regime it backs in Kabul should attempt to deprive him of his power. www.wsws.org /articles/2003/feb2003/afgh-f12.shtml   (1841 words)

Talk:Dasht-i-Leili massacre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I've restructured the article, to narrate the massacre, while not avoiding the controversy. Those more critical of the narrative should qualify witness statements where they think they are unlikely to be true. For instance, I hope people would at least have the decency to watch the documentary on this before denying it ever happened. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Dasht-i-Leili_massacre   (503 words)

Filmmaker Says US Soldiers Watched Massacre Of Taliban Doran told Reuters before the screening of "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death" on Germany's ARD television network that witnesses saw U.S. special forces stand by and watch as Northern Alliance allies murdered Taliban POWs. Doran, an award-winning documentary filmmaker who covered the Afghan war for Japanese television, said up to 3,000 Taliban POWs were killed late last year after surrendering at Kunduz in northern Afghanistan. Rights have been sold or are about to sold to networks in 25 territories. www.rense.com /general32/tali.htm   (545 words)

ELFIS FORUM - EU / UN / Globalist Agendas - Re: Death Convoy of Afghanistan The dead at Dasht-e Leili are proof of that. Haglund was in Dasht-e Leili on more than a hunch. In Boston, the group Physicians for Human Rights, which also sent a team to investigate the reported massacre, said it had repeatedly asked the governments of the United States and Afghanistan as well as the United Nations to secure the gravesite and launch a comprehensive criminal investigation. www.elfis.net /phorum/read.php?f=36&i=306&t=305   (6064 words)

Does the US Support the Geneva Convention or Doesn't It? As Jamie Doran's film "Afghan Massacre - Convoy of Death" records, some hundreds, possibly thousands, of them were loaded into container lorries at Qala-i-Zeini, near the town of Mazar-i-Sharif, on 26 and 27 November. Further evidence of a massacre of Taliban prisoners. Afghan Massacre - Convoy of Death, now available on video from ACFTV, Studio 241, 24-28 St Leonards Road, Windsor, SL4 3BB, United Kingdom. www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles3/Monbiot_GenevaConvention.htm   (1339 words)

NASIOC - Bush's Afghan Massacre That charge is the centerpiece of a documentary film, "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death," expected to be released in the United States within the next few weeks. The title accuses Bush of responsiblity for the "massacre," which is absurd. Indeed, "Massacre" has already been shown on German television and to several European parliaments. forums.nasioc.com /forums/showthread/t-308736.html   (7333 words)

Did the US massacre Taliban? - [Sunday Herald] Two civilians who drove the trucks from Zeini to Scheberghan and then to the desert of Dasht Leili were also interviewed by Doran. They took my truck and loaded a container onto it and I carried prisoners from Qaala Zeini to Scheberghan and, after that, to Dasht Leili, where they were shot by the soldiers. This is where the story of the massacre begins. www.sundayherald.com /25520   (1881 words)

Afghan Massacre - acftv ‘AFGHAN MASSACRE — the convoy of DEATH’ tells of how American special forces took control of the operation, re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried. ‘AFGHAN MASSACRE — the convoy of DEATH’ was produced over ten months in extremely dangerous circumstances: eyewitnesses were threatened, the film crew went into hiding and our researcher was savagely beaten to within an inch of his life. ‘AFGHAN MASSACRE — the convoy of DEATH’ tells of the horrific forced journey undertaken by thousands of prisoners who surrendered to America’s Afghan allies after the siege of Konduz. www.acftv.com /archive/article.asp?archive_id=1   (222 words)

Afghan war crimes a low priority csmonitor.com DASHT-E LEILI, AFGHANISTAN – Commander Taher Charkhi, who helped bury scores of bodies here in a mass grave, is clearly pleased when he says that Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners "suffocated in the containers" last November. Dostum led the attacks on Konduz, which led to the capture of the Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners who eventually died and were buried at Dasht-e Leili. Other prisoners captured at Kunduz were dispatched to a prison in Shibergan, about four hours west by car, and it was POWs from this group who landed in the grave at Dasht-e Leili. www.christiansciencemonitor.com /2002/0912/p06s01-wosc.html   (1152 words)

Donald Rumsfeld . United States Secretary of Defense . President of the United States . Princeton University . Soviet Union . Cold War . President . U.S. invasion of Afghanistan . Abu Ghraib . James R. Schlesinger The Dasht-i-Leili massacre allegedly occurred in December, 2001, when a number disputed to be between 250 and 3000 Taliban prisoners were shot or suffocated to death in metal truck containers while being transferred by United States U.S. and Northern Alliance soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in northern 25520]. These claims are disputed by journalist Robert Young Pelton, who was present at the time of the incident. The full report is called An Australian Republic: The Options - The Appendices ISBN 0644325895... www.uk.knowledge-info.org /Donald_Rumsfeld-UK-0848008-sa   (753 words)

Crimes of War > On The News It is possible that US military personnel did not know about the massacre at the time, but now that it has been discovered, critics urge the United States to take a more active role in investigating and protecting witnesses and evidence to enforce respect for human rights and international law. Human rights groups and the Newsweek feature article, "The Death Convoy of Afghanistan," question the role of the United States in the massacre and clandestine burial of Taliban prisoners of war. It is known that United States troops worked closely with General Dostum and were monitoring Sheberghan prison at the time when the cargo trucks arrived with all the prisoners. www.crimesofwar.org /onnews/news-afghanistan.html   (913 words)

The Raw Story Operation Do-Over: Afghanistan He is also currently under investigation for the Dasht-i-Leili massacre, in which American and Dostum forces are blamed for the suffocation deaths of 250 prisoners of war, and shooting deaths of up to 2,750 more. Under his rule a happy fiefdom seems to be a priority and public massacre is at most infrequent. Afghanistan, a feudal country that even under the Taliban was hardly unified, is falling more and more into the hands of warlords who already control 70 percent of the countryside. rawstory.com /exclusives/avery/operation_do_over_afghanistan_1012.htm   (1709 words)

Were U.S. troops in Afghanistan complicit in a massacre? - News From Babylon Irish documentarian Jamie Doran says he has evidence of American complicity in a massacre in Afghanistan, and he's been showing his rough footage to European leaders in the hope of preventing a coverup. Doran, who worked at the BBC for more than seven years and has made documentaries about human rights abuses throughout the world, screened 20 minutes of his unfinished feature documentary, "Massacre at Mazar," to the European parliament and the German parliament on Wednesday. Were U.S. troops in Afghanistan complicit in a massacre? www.newsfrombabylon.com /article.php?sid=1640   (2164 words)

All posts tagged with massacre Metafilter This slaughter, known as the Bear River Massacre, was the largest such mass killing of natives (even surpassing Wounded Knee) and the only official Civil War battle that took place in what is now Idaho. Chief Sagwich's Northwestern Band of Shoshone had their world shattered on January 23, 1863 when the US Army's 3rd California Volunteers under the leadership of a bitterly xenophobic Patrick E Connor, killed 250 of the 450 tribal members at the behest of Utah territorial officials to have the tribe disciplined. The good chief survived along with about 90 of his tribe and, ten years later, converted to Mormonism along with all of his people. www.metafilter.com /tags/massacre   (313 words)

Salon.com News When does a massacre matter? While there is no firm number of how many died at Dasht-e Leili, there is now abundant evidence that the Northern Alliance, America's proxies, committed war crimes. In June, when Irish documentarian Jamie Doran screened his film "Massacre at Mazar" for the German and European parliaments, the European media jumped on the tragic story. Though the Newsweek investigation didn't mention Doran, it confirmed his story that truck drivers, commandeered to transport the containers, were forbidden from punching air holes in the cages, despite the men's dying screams. www.mcss-usa.org /other_files/002_when_massacre_matters.htm   (371 words)

Indymedia UK - Cambridge Indymedia Film people: How about "Massacre at Mazar"? – two civilian drivers who say they drove trucks of men to Dasht Leili, "where [the prisoners] were shot." A driver tells Doran that there were American soldiers present at Dasht Leili. The massacre allegedly took place in November 2001, when Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum of the Northern Alliance took control of Kunduz, and accepted the surrender of about 8,000 Taliban fighters that included al-Qaeda, Chechens, Uzbeks and Pakistanis. A documentary film by Scottish filmmaker Jamie Doran titled "Massacre at Mazar" offers eyewitness testimony and film footage of human remains and mass graves of what may be damning evidence of mass killings at Sherberghan and Mazar-I-Sharif in Northern Afghanistan. www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/02/284757.html   (1284 words)

startercontenttemplate The deaths reportedly took place between Qala-i-Zeini fortress, Sherberghan prison and the desert of Dasht-i-Leili during a four-day period. Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death is the name of Doran's shocking one-hour long documentary, which graphically catalogues the massacre of up to 3,000 men – presumed to have been fighting for the Taliban – some of whom surrendered after the Siege of Kunduz, once they received assurances concerning their safety. Doran says US personnel were complicit in war crimes but the Pentagon has denied that American soldiers were even in the vicinity or that the American army had any knowledge that such a massacre had taken place. www.gulfnews.com /Articles/Opinion2.asp?ArticleID=115459   (1119 words)

[IMC-Video] Massacre At Mazar, video available? He was speaking after the first showing in Berlin of the film, Massacre at Mazar. Previous message: [IMC-Video] Massacre At Mazar, video available? They looked into it and did not substantiate any knowledge, presence or participation of US service members." The film's six witnesses have agreed to give evidence at any international war crimes tribunal. lists.indymedia.org /mailman/public/imc-video/2002-June/002058.html   (337 words)

Abdul Rashid Dostum -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article Dostum is also under suspicion for the events of the (Click link for more info and facts about Dasht-i-Leili massacre) Dasht-i-Leili massacre. Witnesses claimed that Dostum jailed and tortured witnesses to prevent them from testifying in a war crimes case. In March of 2003, he established a (Click link for more info and facts about North Zone of Afghanistan) North Zone of Afghanistan, against the wishes of interim president (Click link for more info and facts about Hamid Karzai) Hamid Karzai. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ab/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum.htm   (507 words)

Workers World Sept. 5, 2002: War crimes in Afghanistan But it was Doran's film "Massacre at Mazar" that brought Dasht-I-Leili to world attention and prompted the UN investigation. In a cover-story titled "The Death Convoy of Afghanistan," Newsweek reports how captured Taliban and Al Qaeda soldiers were placed in sealed cargo containers and marched across the countryside from Kunduz to Dasht-I-Leili--the site of a now-uncovered mass grave. Newsweek magazine cover-dated Aug. 26 "broke" a story Workers World reported months ago: the massacre of prisoners by the U.S.-allied Northern Alliance in November 2001. www.workers.org /ww/2002/afghan0905.php   (805 words)

[Needtoknow] Afghan massacre haunts Pentagon, Congress Overwhelmed With Anti-War Calls --part1_c6.130024e3.2ad1bf31_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Language: en http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,791840,00.html Afghan massacre haunts Pentagon Luke Harding in Dasht-i-Leili Saturday=20 September 14, 2002 The Guardian =20 =20 "The question human rights groups want answered is: how much did the America= n=20 soldiers know at the time? [Needtoknow] Afghan massacre haunts Pentagon, Congress Overwhelmed With Anti-War Calls The Pentagon said last week that the US troops ha= d=20 reported that they were unaware what had happened to the prisoners. www.massgreens.org /pipermail/needtoknow/2002-October/000333.html   (492 words)

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