Afghan Massacre:
The 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.
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CLIPS
The Untold Story of a Massacre
Witnesses Tell of the Convoy Of Death
Why Did U.S. Special Forces Let This Happen
Why Haven't These Events Being Investigated
Jamie Doran explains Afghan Massacre
