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Documentary about 3,000 prisonors of war killed in Afghanistan by Yank allies
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| swilly |
Doc: Convoy of Death
http://informationclearinghouse.info/article3267.htm
Dunno if this has been posted yet, but i thought I should put it up...
Convoy of Death
Why have US television stations refused to broadcast this documentary?
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. media outlet has broadcast the film.
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 US military’s Afghan allies after the siege 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 truck, 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 US Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried. 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 is 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 US Special Forces’ complicity in the massacre. Two of the witnesses who testified in the film are now dead.
* “Afghan Massacre: the Convoy of Death” - produced and directed by award-winning Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran.
To purchase an audio or video copy of this entire program, call 1 (800) 881-2359 |
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| starsearcher |
| Surprised they weren't running it on CBC or some other Canadian channel 24/7 |
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| crazedcanuck |
Hmmmmm... thread title claims "Killed by Yanks", yet the synopsis of the film tells of the Afghan Warlords and their soldiers doing the slaughtering...
I give this "doc" a big rolleyes. |
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| starsearcher |
| he's stirring up some controversy! |
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| VERTiG0 |
| Meh. Terrorists. Good riddance. |
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| zokissima |
Just like pretty much everything concerning the US, this will just stir up loads of controversy, and that's probably exactly what it's aiming at. Along with this, there are many documentaries of human rights abuse that the US has had a hand in, that have never, and probably will never see air on US channels.
"A God fearing, freedom loving" nation indeed. |
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| crazedcanuck |
| quote: | Originally posted by VERTiG0
Meh. Terrorists. Good riddance. |
Those killed in Afghanistan weren't terrorists.
Soldiers for a repressive regime (one supported by the US btw until 9/11) but the Taliban were simply a harsh regional dictatorship. |
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| VERTiG0 |
| quote: | Originally posted by crazedcanuck
Soldiers for a repressive regime (one supported by the US btw until 9/11) but the Taliban were simply a harsh regional dictatorship. |
Hm, shows how much I know then. It was my understanding (thanks to some ty media) that the Taliban was a terrorist group. I didn't know they were just a regional dictatorship with their own militia. |
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| zokissima |
| Never trust the media, as obviously they paint an incomplete image. It's funny, there was this whole backlash against the Taliban, but no one seems to have voiced the fact that these people were put INTO power by the US, supported, trained, and armed by them during the cold war to fight against the Russians. |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by zokissima
Never trust the media, as obviously they paint an incomplete image. It's funny, there was this whole backlash against the Taliban, but no one seems to have voiced the fact that these people were put INTO power by the US, supported, trained, and armed by them during the cold war to fight against the Russians. |
Yes! |
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| EvilTree |
| quote: | Originally posted by zokissima
Never trust the media, as obviously they paint an incomplete image. It's funny, there was this whole backlash against the Taliban, but no one seems to have voiced the fact that these people were put INTO power by the US, supported, trained, and armed by them during the cold war to fight against the Russians. |
The mujahidden was composed of many groups, which Taliban was one of them which was indeed supported by US.
However, Taliban only took power in Afghanistan in mid 90s IIRC after a civil war with Northern Alliance of northern Afghanistan. So US didn't directly put Taliban into power. |
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| zokissima |
| True, I should have clarified. But the point still remains. This nation has been in the spotlight for quite some time prior to the 9/11 incident, and yes, even though they were an opressive regime, the fact remains that for a long time they were supported by the US. After the fall of the USSR, the US interest from that region faded, regardless of the fact that the country was torn to s***. Simply, they were used as an active part of the US containment policy against Communism, and once that threat passed, they ceased to care what happened to them. |
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