Afghan Massacre The Convoy of Death

Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death (earlier title: Massacre at Mazar[1]) is a 2002 documentary by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran and Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi about alleged war crimes committed by Afghan Northern Alliance troops under General Abdul Rashid Dostum against Taliban fighters. The Taliban fighters, who had surrendered to Dostum's troops after the November 2001 siege of Kunduz, were transported to Sheberghan prison in sealed containers. Human rights groups estimate that hundreds or thousands of them died during and after transit. Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death presents testimony from interviewees stating that American military personnel were present at and complicit in some of the mass killings, known as the Dasht-i-Leili massacre.

A short early version of the documentary was shown to the European and German Parliaments in June 2002, causing widespread concern in Europe.[1][2][3][4] Against protests from the United States government, the completed documentary was shown later that year on many countries' national television channels, including German, British, Italian and Australian television. The programme was not screened in the U.S. and received no U.S. media coverage.[3][5][6][7] A Newsweek report in August 2002, based on a leaked UN memo, did confirm some of the details in Doran's documentary, as well as the presence of mass graves in the Dasht-i-Leili desert, but made no mention of the documentary.[4][8][9]

In July 2009, Barack Obama, the president of the United States, ordered a probe into allegations that the Bush administration had resisted efforts to have the massacre investigated

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[major9211]

I wonder where are these poor soldiers today dead or imprisoned still...

[llokkee]

@jm1706jm

What they should have done is what they said they would do- spare their lives.

Imprison them? In war this is what u do with captured enemy.If u masacre 3000 of them then its whats known as a war crime,punishable by death or imprisonment.

The west should leave their country. But I suppose theyre just a bunch of 'ragheads' eh?

Racism is not a solid platform from which to preach son.

If this had happened in America,what would the reaction be then?

Hypocritical thinking anyone?

[jm1706jm]

what are we to do? let them live and release them? thats out of the question coz they'll just return to the war and shoot at our soldiers - best to kill them and be done with it

[jm1706jm]

lol - those scumbags deserve it - to hell u go u taliban pieces of shit

[USMANALVI40]

what , what , what , what atrocities !,,,,,,,,, Applause for Taliban