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The transferred prisoners were under supervision of forces loyal to General Rashid Dostum and some of them were survivors of the uprising at Qala Jangi prison in Mazar-e Sharif. According to all sources, many of the prisoners died from suffocation inside the containers and some witnesses claim that those who survived were raked with gunfire. The dead were buried an a mass grave under the authority of Commander Kamal. Those who participated in the burial included Commander Taher Charkhi, who voices no regret for their deaths. "Thousands should have died, not hundreds," he has said.
The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan where between 250 and 3,000 (depending on sources) Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal truck containers, while being transferred by U.S. and Afghan Northern Alliance soldiers from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in Afghanistan.
Controversy over Responsibility and Scale
The controversy surrounds the accounts of two individuals, filmmaker Jamie Doran and writer Robert Young Pelton who was traveling with the U.S. Special Forces attached to Abdul Rashid Dostum's forces. Doran blames Dostum's forces for the deaths of the Taliban prisoners. Pelton, on the other hand, completely disputes Doran's claims.
"Détruire", dit-elle
