You haven’t? Don’t feel bad, as seemingly few people know, or remember about the killing of some 2,000 Taliban prisoners in November, 2001 in Afghanistan.

Physicians for Human Rights have been waging a battle to finally make the Bush administration’s cover- up of the massacre public and to hold those responsible accountable.

It appears that Attorney General Eric Holder has another issue, which merits a long overdue investigation.

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In November 2001, as many as 2,000 Taliban prisoners are believed to have been killed in container trucks by US-allied Afghan troops and buried in a mass grave in Dasht-e-Leili, Afghanistan. These Afghan troops were operating jointly with American forces, who were allegedly present at the scene of the crime. PHR investigators discovered the mass grave in 2002.

Under the auspices of the UN, PHR’s International Forensic Program conducted an initial examination of part of the site, exhumed fifteen remains, and conducted autopsies on three individual remains, and found that the likely cause of death was consistent with suffocation.

Since 2002, PHR has been calling for the site to be secured, protection of the witnesses and a full investigation of the alleged massacre. Despite these appeals, Afghan eyewitnesses were tortured, murdered and disappeared, and sections of the mass grave site have been dug up and removed.

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Here’s a video prepared by Physicians for Human Rights.

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