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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• George W. Bush
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[annebeck58]

True, Saddam and his sons did some horrendous things, but so did Bush. Was one worse than the other? I don't know.

However, just because Bush's actions were (basically) sanctioned by our Congress, it does not make any evil he perpetrated RIGHT.

[vjacq88]

Pass this on to everyone you know.

[wingully]

was it not over 3000 at the time with a white flag to get green card to U.S.A the dog's or other animals most have taken there born's

[oneearth11]

Obama's momma is 12th cousin to the bush family

[0ct0parr0t]

why hasnt WikiLeaks got hold of this yet?

[PNACATTACKdotCOM]

MALMEDY II

[SSDogSoldier]

WOW! Am i actually seing people trying to get "Human Rights" for Taliban?

Since when did those fuckers ever act like Humans in the first place?

Do you guys not know how many killing sprees they went on? How many freedom-seeking Afghans they killed?

Some Afghans get some revenge on the Taliban and now we look for human rights abuses?

Man up bitches! Taliban should be shot on the spot.

[lauvamojada]

I invite you all to watch the original (classic) time machine 1960 (here on you tube, just search). It's really a lot like what has really happened. In the future, on the outside, things seem wonderful and perfect, but lurking underneath evil has won. In the movie, the people are being eaten by the evil monsters (literally monsters in the movie). It's a great movie already, but kind of held that irony for me anyway.

[titaniumreplicant]

Hold the Bushco/Obama war criminals to account!

[12brokenbones]

Sucka! And you thought Obama would close Guantanamo Bay! He's just Bush Version 3.0.

[plumba75]

How you liking the closed torture camps? Oh they didnt get closed because Bush and Obama have the same policies. The presidents are just puppets. Kill them all.