Dasht-e-Leili

The State Department mentioned Dasht-e-Leili in a couple of its annual human rights reports as a place “where international experts found evidence of summary execution and death by suffocation,” but took no further action, and the Bush administration discouraged government investigators from looking into the massacre.

Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

Incidentally, according to the State Department, Dostum would later tell the same thing, verbatim, to the international investigators who had wanted to probe the Dasht-e-Leili killings.

Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

PHR has urged the Afghans to request NATO assistance in securing the Dasht-e-Leili grave, and has asked NATO step forward to provide security.

Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN 2008

PHR is concerned that the delay in action on all sides may be allowing for additional destruction of evidence and further endangerment of witnesses at the Dasht-e-Leili site.

Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN 2008

Incidentally, according to the State Department, Dostum would later tell the same thing, verbatim, to the international investigators who had wanted to probe the Dasht-e-Leili killings.

Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

(Cambridge, MA) – Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) calls upon Afghan, UN, and NATO authorities to cease evading responsibility and to act immediately to secure the mass grave site at Dasht-e-Leili in northern Afghanistan.

Behind Bars | ATTACKERMAN 2008

The State Department mentioned Dasht-e-Leili in a couple of its annual human rights reports as a place “where international experts found evidence of summary execution and death by suffocation,” but took no further action, and the Bush administration discouraged government investigators from looking into the massacre.

Peace Meals Anna Badkhen 2010

Using forensic analysis and satellite imagery, they did an excellent job in documenting a war crime -- and the subsequent U.S. supported cover-up -- in Afghanistan, where in the wake of the U.S. led invasion in 2001 hundreds of prisoners of war were killed by a U.S. backed warlord and dumped in a mass grave in Dasht-e-Leili.

Amnesty International: War Crimes in Afghanistan, Or: What You Don't Learn in Science Class 2009

In 2002, PHR investigators discovered the presence of a mass grave site in Dasht-e-Leili, outside of the city of Sheberghan in northern Afghanistan.

Amnesty International: War Crimes in Afghanistan, Or: What You Don't Learn in Science Class 2009

This group claims it has documents that show up to 2000 Taliban fighters were suffocated in container trucks by Dostum's forces and buried in the Dasht-e-Leili desert in November of 2001.

Time to Restore Accountability 2009