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Dasht-e-Leili in the News and Blogs

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:26 pm by Ben Greenberg

News Outlets

Groups ask US, NATO to help secure Afghanistan gravesite (McClatchy Newspapers)
Lasseter Produces Afghan Scoop — Calls for Commitment to Foreign Coverage (Editor & Publisher)

Blogs

Bush Legacy: Helping Hide War Crimes (Taylor Marsh)
The Trouble with Warlords (Taylor Marsh)
UN to Assist in Preserving Mass Graves in Afghanistan (MotherJones Blog)

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In November 2001, as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners are believed to have been killed in container trucks by US-allied Afghan troops and buried in a mass grave in Dasht-e Leili, Afghanistan. These Afghan troops were operating jointly with American forces, who were allegedly present at the scene of the crime. PHR investigators discovered the mass grave in 2002. (More...)