Afghan Massacre: Convoy of Death

"There's only one war on our television screens now – that other war, the one from just a year ago, has been forgotten – but not by everyone. In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

After screening the videotape last fall, the European Parliament called for an investigation. The United Nations has authorized an official investigation into the film's allegations, but only if the security of its members can be guaranteed. And security is hard to find in northern Afghanistan. Since this documentary was filmed, eyewitnesses have been tortured. Others have disappeared or been killed."

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23rd September 2003 - "Did U.S. Forces Allow a Massacre of 3,000 Taliban Prisoners to Occur?" BuzzFlash asks Jamie Doran, Producer-Director of "Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death"

Some more links:

• Preliminary Assessment of Alleged Mass Gravesites in the Area of Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan - report by the Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) . The PHR investigated the site in January, 2002, and completed a preliminary forensic investigation in February, 2002. See also: press release from PHR about the investigation of mass graves in Afghanistan, including the Dasht-e-Leili site near Sheberghan Prison in Northern Afghanistan.
• The Embassy of Afghanistan Responds to Documentary 'Afghan Massacre - Convoy of Death' [PDF] - press release from the Afghanistan embassy, February 5, 2003.
• Bush's Afghan Massacre - article from the Global Policy Forum website, January 29, 2003.
• Documentary alleges U.S. complicity in Afghan massacre - article from The Mercury News , December 23, 2002.
• Afghan massacre haunts Pentagon - article from The Guardian , September 14, 2002.
• Further evidence of a massacre of Taliban prisoners - article from Lawyers Against the War, June 29, 2002.
• Interview with Jamie Doran [director of Afghan Massacre / Massacre at Mazar ] - from the World Socialist Web Site, June 17, 2002.
• US had role in Taleban prisoner deaths - article from NEWSscostman.com, June 15, 2002.
• New film accuses US of war crimes - article from The Guardian , June 14, 2002.
• US war crimes stand alarms Dutch - article from the Sydney Morning Herald , June 14, 2002.

Links taken from Disclosure (CBC). Original VHS can be purchased from acftv.