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Coverup of Afghan mass grave?
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Press TV
December 17, 2008
Human rights groups have called on US-led forces to secure a mass grave in northern Afghanistan that may contain evidence of a major war crime.
Dasht-e-Leili is allegedly the burial location of as many as 2,000 prisoners who surrendered to US Special Forces in November 2001 after the fall of the Taliban in the Afghan city of Kunduz. According to reports, US troops and allied Afghan groups had jailed the prisoners in cargo containers, where they suffocated, and then buried them at the site.
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A human rights group discovered the grave in 2002 and has performed autopsies on some of the bodies. In July 2008, two large holes three meters (10 feet) deep were found at the site, which may have been dug in order to remove evidence.
The United Nations confirmed the earth disturbances following a McClatchy Newspapers report last week that said three new holes were dug at the site in November.
On Monday, the United Nations pledged to help Afghan authorities secure the site, but the international body does not have security forces in the war-torn country.
Meanwhile, the deputy director of the US-based NGO Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), Susannah Sirkin, has said that the US and its NATO allies should immediately secure the site and post guards to protect it round the clock.
“Also, the US bears a minimum responsibility for ensuring the protection of prisoners who had been captured and imprisoned by its allies,” Sirkin asserted, adding, “We don’t know if American forces were at the site or present when these people died, but we do know that they were present during the surrender and the handover of the prisoners.”
Human rights groups have demanded that the US government provide a declassified analysis of the satellite imagery of the site from November 2001 to the present and make the images available to the Afghan government, the United Nations, and the US Congress.
A US-led invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001 and launched the so-called “war on terror” — which has brought more than 70,000 troops, mainly from the US, to Afghanistan.
Recently, US-led coalition forces have admitted that they are ‘far from victory in Afghanistan’.
The long-term occupation of Afghan territory by the US and its allies, their indisrciminate bombings and the resultant civilian casualties, and the lack of social and political reform have only exacerbated the situation in the war-ravaged country.
“Afghanistan” literally means “land of the sorrowful” or “land of the miserable” in the Persian language.
And after over 30 years of war, many say that Afghanistan truly has become the “land of the sorrowful”.
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December 17th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
It is not OK to kill people. PERIOD.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
I’ve heard many stories of the troops there kidnapping Afghani women to gang rape them then they fly back over their villages and throw the women out of the helicopter from 150 feet up. Nasty rumor but honestly I wouldn’t be surprised.
clint Reply:
February 23rd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I too have heard that from people I knew who worked over there as well as relatives that were there in the military. I also heard of home invasions where husbands and children were murdered and the wife was taken raped and killed or left for dead by US military.
December 17th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
ONLY IN SELF – DEFENSE.
December 17th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Gandhi said, “There is no way to peace, peace is the way”. I believe he is right… Bush flails around the word “peace” & “justice” but he knows not of the definitions. I’m glad that reporter guy put in his two cents with the throwing of his shoes because Bush is no less than the dirt on our feet. He’s justifying the occupation and destruction of another country for peace and justice, how oxymoronic and ironic is that~ Come on people… don’t you know when you’re getting swindled and lied to anymore? How about doing some thinking and research for yourselves.
Peace, Love, Unity, Respect and Karma,
K Rhodes
December 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Poxy…Where did you find this information? That’s nasty!
December 17th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
I agree with ya Roger
December 17th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
PROOF ON VIDEO OF THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X55klMiLo1U
December 17th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
Roger, you posted the following:
“It is not OK to kill people. PERIOD.”
I like your authoritative approach to morality, but is your conclusion accurate in light of fundamental morality? Whose standard were you applying? Allow me to offer a hypothetical question; please consider it and give your answer:
An armed burglar breaks down the front door of your house and pulls out a pistol, and threatens to kill you, your wife and children. You recognize that the burglar is a former employee who you fired for using drugs on the job and threatening other workers. Would it be OK for you to shoot him?
If you’re using Exodus 20:13 in the KJV Bible as your standard (i.e., “Thou shalt not KILL”), then I’d recommend you get a NEW KJV. It’s a more accurate translation. The NKJV says in the same verse, “You shall not MURDER”; that is the correct translation of the Hebrew word, “ratsach”. It’s apparent that killing of human beings is authorized under certain conditions; tragic, but authorized nonetheless. Check it out.. Semper Fi, Chris in Colorado
December 17th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
This kind of crime happens all the time in war. Hell we have killed women and children for decades and nobody really cares. Americans wont even think twice about the incident until there are troops in the streets killing the women and children of this country. Until then its kind of like a movie to people over here. Like Spike Lee said at the end of School Daze….WAAAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUUUUUUP!
December 17th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Only you can decide who the enemy is. Educate yourselves and protect your families.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
I’m not amazed to hear such things. I mean the US Army wouldn’t give a shit about an Afghan or Iraqi. For proof look at the Abu Ghraib picture and such or Gitmo. So it’s not a surprise to hear about such finding that links mass grave to US Army but mark my words, they will say it was done by Taliban and not them and some fools will choose to believe so. But you got to admit that this human rights organizations are funny. How can you ask a suspect to protect the evidence? I mean that sounds dumb. The fact that the area is under US control and holes have been dug, it tells you that they are responsible but I’m telling you they don’t care and will not cooperate. If the cooperate then they will do all that is possible to point the finger at Taliban. Shame, shame, shame.
December 17th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
guarantee that this will simply be pushed under the rug. or if it gets reported on cnn or something it won’t last more than a day or two and then people will forget. simply buy whatever the mainstream media propaganda machine tells them to.
Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything —Alexander Hamilton
December 17th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
If warriors fight on a battlefield , away from civilians and for a significant reason ( and not for
very long ) , that’s one thing . But these endless wars , without justifiable motive , involving women and children , raping , torture etc… is extremely low life shit , and the karma is very heavy !!!
December 17th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
and now they want to bring Ravenwood er… I mean Blackwater to come and to the same to us in hometown USA. Are you prepared to fight this evil?
http://www.TacticalWarfighterGear.com
December 17th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Well here in the good ole US of A everyone is saying that it will not happen to them. It cannot happen to them. That is what the gypsies and the slavs said when nazis where taking the jews. look what happened to them. Sure these people who support the neo-cons are proud of the gangsters. howerer when they finally secure their police state completely then the very people who supported them will be taken away because of gun ownership. naturally then it will be blamed on a democrat. ha people here are such a damn joke. hipocrites. go live in a poor country where you have no job no education and if it does have any wealth it is been stolen by a foreign corporation. Or you are being enslaved with weapons with made in the usa written all over it.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
“IF THIS BE TREASON, THEN MAKE THE MOST OF IT”! In a matter of MONTHS, the citizens of this nation will be required to make a choice about their Future in America. If they keep down their present road, many of them will PERISH unnoticed. If they chose FREEDOM, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, THEY HAD BEST CHOOSE IT NOW!
The future’s getting DARKER and the only light in the room will be the flash of an AK47 or GLOCK.
December 17th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
forgive my spamming 3minute 9-11 video I made it’s a day late and a dollar short but it shows some pretty hard evidence that I think has gone unnoticed in the 9-11 truth movement http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQYFABSlCQ4
December 18th, 2008 at 8:54 am
There is a film that was produced in 2002 called: “Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death”. You can view it at: http://www.acftv.com or at moviesfoundonline.com.
December 18th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Afghanistan does not mean land of the miserable in Persian you moron.
December 18th, 2008 at 12:36 pm
After U.S. withdraws from Islamic countries, Israel will move in and occupy them all.
December 18th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
raping and killing women and children is nothing new in war. to demand proof is foolish because its common knowledge it happens. always has always will as long as theres war.
December 18th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
The BBC did a documentary called Afghan Massacre: the Convoy of Death which
tells the story of this war crime. Produced and directed by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran, the film documents the cold-blooded murder of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US military’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz in November 2001.
The film describes how some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport. When the prisoners began shouting for air, Northern Alliance soldiers fired into the trucks, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds.
Witnesses say that when the trucks arrived and soldiers opened the containers, most of the people inside were dead. They also say US Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried.
There is a link to the video here: http://paulsgraham.ca/index.ph.....-of-death/
December 18th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
and we think we are better than the nazis in ww2? kinda makes me ashamed to be american. no wonder every other country hates us. except for mexico that is they want our land.
December 19th, 2008 at 6:40 am
IT IS HORRIBLE!!!
and USA government just as nazis are planning fema concentration death camps in USA in 2011 after martail law!!!
PLEASE PEOPLE< research!!!!
STOP THIS INHUMANITY!!!!!!!
December 19th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
fuck the human rights groups they are part of the problem ,otherwise they would have been speaking up against the agenda long ago. members of parliament here in the UK, especially Gordon nwo Browns labour party mp’s started their careers as human rights lawyers .if this mass atrocity is true then it should be fully investigated,but with proper investigators not human rights groups that push the nwo agenda, and thats never going to happen.
December 19th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Our gov’t thinks we’re too dumb to understand the commitment fighting a war and then occupying the destroyed land, will take. They’re right, a feeble majority of us are so dumb that they thought we could launch multiple wars like a “cowboys and indians” orgy and crush everyone else like a steamroller going over plastic army figures – and that terrorism was the most holy and justified cause for anything we did. Mass mental illness and the fight against it, is a bigger problem in the USA.