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Afghanistan Massacre video |
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Contributed by Werner Scott
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Saturday, 10 November 2007 |
This is a video I 've never heard about until now.
On May 23rd, 2003 the nationwide, public radio and television show Democracy Now! premiered Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death,
a controversial documentary film alleging U.S. military involvement in
a massacre of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan. The film, never before
shown in the U.S., aired during the Friday broadcast of Democracy Now!,
at 9 a.m. EST. Afghan Massacre: the Convoy of Death has been broadcast
on national television in Britain, Germany, Italy and Australia and has
been screened by the European parliament.
Produced and directed
by Irish filmmaker and former BBC producer Jamie Doran, the film tells
the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the US
military’s Afghan allies after the siege of Kunduz. According to the
film, some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed
containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan prison.
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.
Outraged human
rights groups and lawyers are calling for an investigation but the U.N.
special envoy to Afghanistan refuses any U.N.-backed investigation
until the Afghan government can protect witnesses. Two of the witnesses
in the film have already been killed.
A smaller video clip is available through Google video here. "Democracy Now" is a collaborative effort ... a daily news program available on over 500 radio and television stations in Canada and the United States.
It is not available in Saskatchewan. The program has never been shown
on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stations as far as I know.
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