Dasht-i-Leili massacre
2001 CE.
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In December 2001, between 250 and 2,000 Taliban insurgents who had surrendered to the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan (part of the Northern Alliance) were massacred while being transported to Sheberghan Prison in the Jowzjan Province. Fighters loyal to General Abdul Rashid Dostum tightly packed the prisoners into shipping containers in Kunduz and sealed them inside, while denying them water and sustenance, and reportedly shot all those who had not died of suffocation by the time the convoy arrived at Sheberghan. The prisoners' corpses were subsequently buried in mass graves throughout the Leili Desert. Controversy emerged following allegations of American involvement, particularly after the 2002 documentary Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death was published by Scottish journalist Jamie Doran and screened for the European Parliament.
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