Of course, war crimes are only for African tin-pots doing the West's dirty work. And concern over mass graves are only for designated enemies (such as Saddam Hussein and "Al-CIA-Duh" in Iraq. Which makes you wonder: why aren't they unearthing Saddam's victims all over the place? Wouldn't the Zionist MSM be blaring headlines about it? Even now, when they allegedly find them, it's "Al-CIA-Duh."
Now, does this report square with what you have watched? Does it offer the same focus and emphasis?
"UN: Afghan mass grave site disturbed" by Heidi Vogt, Associated Press | December 14, 2008
KABUL, Afghanistan - The UN has confirmed that a mass grave in northern Afghanistan has been disturbed, raising the possibility that evidence supporting allegations of a massacre seven years ago may have been removed.
The Dasht-e-Leili grave site holds as many as 2,000 bodies of Taliban prisoners who died in transit after surrendering during one of the regime's last stands in November 2001, according to a State Department report from 2002. The prisoners were being moved by the US-allied Northern Alliance, a group of Afghan fighters opposed to the Taliban.
"We can confirm that the site at Dasht-e-Leili has been disturbed," Dan McNorton, a spokesman for the UN mission in Afghanistan, said Friday. He declined to comment on how or when the site had changed, saying that details would be available in an upcoming report.
McClatchy Newspapers first reported the tampering with the grave site on Thursday. Physicians for Human Rights, a Boston-based group that discovered the Dasht-e-Leili site in 2002 and has performed autopsies on some of the bodies, said its researchers found two pits at the site, both about 100 feet by 50 feet, in July that appeared to have been dug this year.
"These are real holes appearing to have been professionally dug, and signs of heavy machinery were observed," the group's deputy director, Susannah Sirkin, said.
Now WHO would want to cover up the CONVOY of DEATH DEATH PITS?
Witnesses have asserted that Northern Alliance forces placed the prisoners in sealed cargo containers over the two-day trip to Sheberghan Prison, suffocating them, and then burying them en masse using bulldozers to move the bodies, according to the State Department report. Some Northern Alliance soldiers have said that some of their troops opened fire on the containers, killing those within.
Representatives for northern Afghan strongman Abdul Rahim Dostum, the Northern Alliance general who is accused of overseeing the atrocities, could not be reached for comment. Dostum has previously denied the allegations.
Physicians for Human Rights has repeatedly called for an investigation into Dasht-e-Leili, and for protection of the area as possible evidence of a massacre. The UN said it does not have the authorization or the resources to protect all the mass grave sites in Afghanistan, a country still embroiled in conflict with Taliban fighters and other insurgent groups.
Regional officials said it was unclear whether the site had truly been tampered with. "We decided to send a team of investigators down there, but we were not able to find any evidence to show the removal of anything from Dasht-e-Leili," said General Khalil Aminzada, the police chief for Zawzjan Province.
Yeah, USraeli mass-murder is always much harder to substantiate, unlike "suiciders" and evil dictators.
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Who is/was in those pits, Amurka?
They were TALIBAN, right?
Who are the Taliban, anyway?
"Something of a catchall term for loosely affiliated insurgents without a singular command structure. Often, the Afghan government favors the phrase 'enemies of the state' (New York Times July 24, 2007)."
"The Taliban is growing and creating new alliances not because its sectarian religious practices have become popular, but because it is the only available umbrella for national liberation," says Pakistani historian and political commentator Tariq Ali. "As the British and the Soviets discovered to their cost in the preceding two centuries, Afghans never like being occupied."
Also see: Afghanistan's Other Government
And today, readers?
"More and more, people here look back to the era of harsh Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, describing it as a time of security and peace."
Oh, oh, oh!!!! I'm so offended by theAmeriKan MSM and its bullshit!
Oh, one more thing:
"The U.S. government was well aware of the Taliban's reactionary program, yet it chose to back their rise to power in the mid-1990s. The creation of the Taliban was "actively encouraged by the ISI and the CIA," according to Selig Harrison, an expert on U.S. relations with Asia. "The United States encouraged Saudi Arabia and Pakistan to support the Taliban, certainly right up to their advance on Kabul," adds respected journalist Ahmed Rashid. When the Taliban took power, State Department spokesperson Glyn Davies said that he saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law, and Senator Hank Brown, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia, welcomed the new regime: "The good part of what has happened is that one of the factions at last seems capable of developing a new government in Afghanistan." "The Taliban will probably develop like the Saudis. There will be Aramco [the consortium of oil companies that controlled Saudi oil], pipelines, an emir, no parliament and lots of Sharia law. We can live with that," said another U.S. diplomat in 1997."
And you ready for a SURGE in AFGHANISTAN, America?
