WarCrimes

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The US State Department reacted upset on a documentary on German television alleging that US soldiers were involved in war crimes in Afghanistan. The film, Massacre in Afghanistan--Did the Americans Look On?, was produced by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran. It was shown December 18th, 2002, on one of the German public channels--ARD. The 45-minute documentary had its premiere on British Channel 5 and the Italian station RAI. Prior to the German broadcast, a spokesman for the US State Department, Larry Schwartz, declared: "It is a mystery to us why a respected television channel is showing a documentary in which the facts are completely wrong and which unfairly depicts the US mission in Afghanistan." In fact, the allegations in Doran's film have been public for over half a year and the US government has refused to make any statement or advance any argument to refute its detailed evidence of complicity by US soldiers in of POWs... ....Massacre in Afghanistan postulates that the 90-minute video offered to Quairishi was stolen on the orders of General Dostum, who is holding the footage in order to protect himself from possible prosecution. Should any attempt be made to implicate Dostum, the video would clearly indicate the close collaboration of American military forces in the killings.... ...the Pentagon issued a statement June 13 denying the allegations of US complicity in the torture and murder of POWs. The US State Department followed with a formal denial on June 14..." Source: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/dec2002/docu-d21.shtml

In February 2003, Afghan Massacre--Convoy of Death, premiered in the United States. http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/feb2003/afgh-f12.shtml Compare: U.S. Cluster Bombs Killed Civilians in Afghanistan New Report Illustrates Dangers for Iraq http://www.hrw.org/press/2002/12/arms1218.htm Criminals of Afghanistan http://www.afghancriminals.com Bush's race to war puts world at risk http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1220-08.htm More Evidence of U.S. War Crimes in Afghanistan: Taliban POWs Suffocated Inside Cargo Containers http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/pows-d13.shtml Detainees from Bush War on Afghans Should be Released or Tried http://www.amnestyusa.org/countries/afghanistan A Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing of Afghanistan http://www.cursor.org/stories/civilian_deaths.htm Who Will Count the Dead? U.S. Slave Media Fail to Report Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan http://www.media-alliance.org/mediafile/20-5 Interview With Jamie Doran, Director of Massacre at Mazar http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/jun2002/dora-j17.shtml

(See Shebarghan) (See Mazar-I-Sharif)