Afghan Massacre: Eyewit Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the M

[Chicago Democrat]

Afghan Massacre: Eyewitnesses Testify that US Troops Were Complicit in the Massacre of up to 3,000 Taliban Prisoners During the Afghan War

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According to eyewitnesses, after the seige of Kunduz, some three thousand prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison. Eyewitnesses say when the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, 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. Now, up to three thousand bodies lie buried in a mass grave.

The film has sent shockwaves around the world. It has been broadcast on national television in Britain, Germany, Italy and Australia. It has been screened by the European parliament. It has outraged human rights groups and international human rights lawyers. They are calling for investigation into whether U.S. Special Forces are guilty of war crimes.

But most Americans have never heard of the film. That's because not one corporate media outlet in the U.S. will touch it. Before Democracy Now! premiered the film one year ago this week, it had never before been broadcast in this country.

Rest at...

http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl

[Just Me]

1. Will this atrocity finally catch on fire?

Will Abizaid deny knowledge of it?

[Chicago Democrat]

2. Let's help..

This is our Holocaust, folks, Americans are mass murderers.

[teryang]

3. Another link on the same subject

http://www.counterpunch.org/jones05082004.html

What About the Hundreds Who Were Suffocated at Kunduz?
America's Srebrenica
By ADAM JONES

<Doran went further still. He claimed that U.S. soldiers were present when the containers were opened, and ordered the destruction of the ghastly evidence inside. "When the containers were finally opened, a mess of urine, blood, faeces, vomit and rotting flesh was all that remained ... As the containers were lined up outside the prison, a soldier accompanying the convoy was present when the prison commanders received orders to dispose of the evidence quickly." He cites witness testimony to the effect that "In each container maybe 150-160 had been killed. ... The Americans told the Shebarghan people to get them outside the city before they were filmed by satellite."><snip>

<Witnesses to the grim events also alleged that "600 Taliban PoWs who survived the containers' shipment to the Shebarghan prison ... were taken to a spot in the desert and executed in the presence of about 30 to 40 U.S. special forces soldiers" (The Globe and Mail, 19 December 2002).>

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. Thanks, I heard this today on WBAI and was going to post it

but you beat me to it.
3,000 dead POW's, and nary a report on it anywhere.

Where is the outrage over this?

[WillyT]

5. And The Hits Just Keep On Comin !!! - Has Congress Said Anything On This ?

The Nazis used to use trains.

Apparently, now we use trucks.

:argh::nuke::puke:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. Buy a copy of the film -- send it to every newspaper reporter in your town

I have been intending to buy a copy of the video for nearly a year and have never gotten around to it. Apparently, it's available from the UK here (link below). I don't know if it's in PAL format and available in NTSC but I have a PAL/SECAM/NTSC converter. I'm going to track down a copy and buy it, just to see if the story holds up and seems to make sense. It if does, then I will start making copies and sending them around. Maybe a Yahoo Group on this event would help to organize the beginnings of some sort of mass awareness. I truly don't enjoy learning about such ugliness, but the truth must get out.

http://www.acftv.com/archive/article.asp?archive_id=1

[WillyT]

7. Must Read Kick !!!

:kick:

[rooboy]

8. This isn't LBN...

this documentary has been out for at least a year. It's a must read, but not LBN.