'New Evidence That Bush Administration Impeded Three Investigations Into Alleged Massacre Of Up To 2,000 Prisoners In Afghanistan', Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), 10 July 2009
EXCERPT: "Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has issued a call for a criminal probe in the wake of a major New York Times story with new evidence that the Bush Administration impeded at least three federal investigations into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan in 2002. PHR is calling for the Department of Justice to investigate why the Bush Administration impeded an FBI criminal probe of the alleged Dasht-e-Leili massacre. According to US government documents obtained by PHR, as many as 2,000 surrendered Taliban fighters were reportedly suffocated in container trucks by Afghan forces operating jointly with the US in November 2001. The bodies were reportedly buried in mass graves in the Dasht-e-Leili desert near Sheberghan, Afghanistan. Notorious Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who was reportedly on the CIA payroll, is allegedly responsible for the massacre."
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See also:
'Obama "examining Afghan killings"', BBC News, 13 July 2009
'The Afghan ship-container "massacre"', BBC News, 13 July 2009
'Obama orders review of alleged Afghan mass grave', The Associated Press, 12 July 2009
'Obama Administration: No grounds to probe Afghan war crimes', The Associated Press, 10 July 2009
'The death convoy of Afghanistan', Newsweek, 26 August 2002
Related posts:
'UN expert: US failing to properly probe war crimes', 28 May 2009
'The warlords of Afghanistan', 13 February 2009
'UN confirms Afghan mass grave site disturbed', 12 December 2008
'Warlords toughen US task in Afghanistan', 9 December 2008
'South Asia Human Rights Index 2008 - Afghanistan', 5 August 2008
