US War Crimes In Mazar ( Afghanistan ) - Documentary reported by Jamie Doran
Taliban who surrendered to the Northern Alliance at Kunduz and were stuffed into...
US War Crimes In Mazar ( Afghanistan ) - Documentary reported by Jamie Doran
Taliban who surrendered to the Northern Alliance at Kunduz and were stuffed into shipping containers for transfer to a prison near the town of Shibarghan. Over a three-day period, the prisoners were kept in closed metal containers and given no food or water. Many suffocated. Others were killed when guards fired into the containers.
They were buried in a mass grave in a stretch of desert outside of Shibarghan.
The cover-up carried out by the Bush administration, which rejected calls by the FBI, the US State Department, the International Committee of the Red Cross and human rights groups for an investigation, “because the [Northern Alliance] warlord, Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum, was on the payroll of the CIA and his militia worked closely with United States Special Forces in 2001.