Afghan Massacre: The Convoy Of Death
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Original: DemocracyNow.org
Via: InformationClearingHouse.info
Produced & Directed By: award-winning Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran.

In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre:
Taliban Prisoners of War suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.

The film has been broadcast on national television in countries all over the world and has been screened by the European Parliament.

Human rights lawyers are calling for investigation into whether U.S. forces are guilty of War Crimes. But no U.S.

Today, on Democracy Now!, The U.S. broadcast premiere of a documentary film called
"Afghan Massacre: The Convoy Of Death."

The film provides eyewitness testimony that U.S. troops were complicit in the massacre of thousands of Taliban prisoners during the Afghan War.

It tells the story of thousands of prisoners who surrendered to the U.S. military's Afghan Allies after the Seige of Kunduz.

According to eyewitnesses, some three thousand of the prisoners were forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to Sheberghan Prison.

Eyewitnesses say when the prisoners began shouting for air, U.S.-Allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the trucks, killing many of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds.

Witnesses say that when the trucks arrived and soldiers opened the containers, most of the people inside were dead. They also say U.S. Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and burried. Now, up to three thousand bodies lie buried in a mass grave.

The film has sent shockwaves around the world. It has been broadcast on national television in Britain, Germany, Italy and Australia.

It has been screened by the European Parliament. It has outraged human rights groups and international human rights lawyers. They are calling for investigation into whether U.S. Special Forces are guilty of War Crimes.

But most Americans have never heard of the film. That's because not one corporate media outlet in the U.S. will touch it. It has never before been broadcast in this country.

Today, Democracy Now, brings you the premiere broadcast of "Afghan Massacre" in the United States.

"Afghan Massacre" is produced and directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran.

Doran has worked at the highest levels of television film production for more than two decades. His films have been broadcast on virtually every major channel throughout the world. On average, each of his films are seen in around 35 countries. Before establishing his independent television company, Jamie Doran spent over seven years at BBC Television.

The film was researched by award-winning Journalist Najibullah Quraishi, who was beaten almost to death when he tried to obtain video evidence of U.S. Special Forces' complicity in the massacre.

Two of the witnesses who testified in the film are now dead.

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CLIPS:
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The Untold Story Of A Massacre:
http://tv.oneworld.net/mediamanage/play/1372//


Witnesses Tell Of The Convoy Of Death:
http://tv.oneworld.net/mediamanage/play/1373//


Why Did U.S. Special Forces Let This Happen:
http://tv.oneworld.net/mediamanage/play/1374//


Why Haven't These Events Been Investigated:
http://tv.oneworld.net/mediamanage/play/1375//


Jamie Doran Explains Afghan Massacre:
http://tv.oneworld.net/mediamanage/play/1376//