War Crimes and the White House Cover-Up of the Dasht-e-Leili Massacre-PHR

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Uploaded by on Aug 22, 2010

CNN's Anderson Cooper asks President Obama whether he wants a war crimes investigation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8Ckyd0cyrY

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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  • Dasht-e-Leili Massacre is a chapter right out of the

    secret state police in Nazi Germany, known for its

    terrorist methods. Who has the balls to prosecute

    Makes me wonder what else the fuckers are hiding

  • this is fucked right up. This happened years ago and this is the first I heard of it

  • Pass this on to everyone you know.

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