War Crimes and the White House: The Bush Administration's Cover-Up of the Dasht-e-Leili Massacre

Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has issued a call for a criminal probe in the wake of a major New York Times story by James Risen with new evidence that the Bush Administration impeded at least three federal investigations into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan in 2002. ("U.S. Inaction Seen After Taliban P.O.W.s Died" - NYTimes.com http://bit.ly/wHwpc)

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.

This video, detailing nearly eight years of advocacy and investigation by Physicians for Human Rights, explores the events surrounding the massacre and subsequent cover-up.

Featuring Physicians for Human Rights' CEO Frank Donaghue, Campaign Against Torture Director Nathaniel Raymond, and Deputy Director Susannah Sirkin. Written, directed, and narrated by Jared Voss.

For more information and to sign our petition calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to let the FBI do its job, visit http://AfghanMassGrave.org.

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[Smartassawhip]

This is wrong on so many levels. I am definitely signing the petition. Bush and Cheney and anyone else who is involved in this mess must be brought o justice.. that way the next time a president thinks about screwing us over.. he or she will think twice.

[nuage7777]

Republicans are fuckers! Shit stains! Scum of the earth!

[TheBelldiver]

I think the white house is letting us stir the pot then they are going to stir the fire creating a situation so they open fire in our direction. At first people will be sided with the government then.... We'll see

[TheBelldiver]

Five stars for reporting. Use this too as a register. I can't believe Bush is not in prison or hung like Hussain. I see no difference what's so ever. That's one Texan that needs a can of whoopass opened up on him. I was in the oil patch same time he was and he pulled crap way back then too.

[AZABMALIK]

War Crimes was on 9/11 not in Afghanistan

[vee85]

If the bush administration can kill over 3000 Americans on 9/11 and get away with it then this is nothing

[BadGovernmentSL]

Watch this

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Sri Lankan soldiers executing innocent Tamils

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[psykotrol]

yup, Im sure its easy to simply dismiss an organization, take its acronym and turn it into an ad hominem.

Its a lot harder to prove it. Which you havent, at all.

Its hard to find out the truth, isnt it? That your country is complicit in war crimes?

Its easy to cover it up, its harder to bring a criminal trial to those involved.

Criminal trials are also the most moral choice. Unless you actually think impunity for war crimes is moral, in which case you are the retard.