{"id":9701,"date":"2009-07-11T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9701"},"modified":"2009-07-11T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T22:27:47","slug":"phr-u-s-cover-up-of-massacre-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9701","title":{"rendered":"PHR: U.S. Cover-Up of Massacre in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Physicians for Human Rights<br \/>\nAfghanMassGrave.org<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afghanistan.phrblog.org\/\">11 July 2009<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The New York Times<\/em> reports on the front page of its Saturday edition  that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/11\/world\/asia\/11afghan.html\">the  Bush Administration impeded at least three federal investigations into alleged  war crimes in Afghanistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This revelation from Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter James Risen comes after  <a href=\"http:\/\/afghanistan.phrblog.org\/get-the-facts\/chronology\/\">nearly eight  years of forensic investigation, documentation and advocacy by Physicians for  Human Rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s forces in northern Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/11\/world\/asia\/11afghan.html\">the story<\/a> and view <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DM2OAEjUVbI\">PHR\u2019s new online  video, <em>War Crimes and the White House: The Bush Administration\u2019s Cover-Up of  the Dasht-e-Leili Massacre<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Share these resources with friends and colleagues. And sign <a href=\"http:\/\/afghanistan.phrblog.org\/get-involved\/let-the-fbi-do-its-job\/\">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<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=9701\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-2wt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9704,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9701\/revisions\/9704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}