Physicians for Human Rights
AfghanMassGrave.org
11 July 2009
The New York Times reports on the front page of its Saturday edition that the Bush Administration impeded at least three federal investigations into alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
This revelation from Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen comes after nearly eight years of forensic investigation, documentation and advocacy by Physicians for Human Rights.
In November 2001, as many as 2,000 detainees were allegedly massacred by US-allied Afghan troops led by General Dostum. The dead were buried in a mass grave at Dasht-e-Leili, Afghanistan. US military and intelligence personnel were operating jointly and accepted the surrender of the prisoners jointly with General Dostum’s forces in northern Afghanistan.
Please read the story and view PHR’s new online video, War Crimes and the White House: The Bush Administration’s Cover-Up of the Dasht-e-Leili Massacre.
Share these resources with friends and colleagues. And sign our petition calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to let the FBI do its job by proceeding with the war crimes investigation that the Bush administration shut down.