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The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December 2001 during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan when, depending on the sources, between several hundred to several thousand Taliban prisoners were shot and/or suffocated to death in metal shipping containers while being transferred by Junbish-i Milli soldiers under the supervision of forces loyal to General Rashid Dostum〔("U.S. Inaction Seen After Taliban P.O.W.’s Died " )〕〔("Study Hints at Mass Killing of the Taliban" )〕〔("The Truth About Dasht-i-Leili " )〕 from Kunduz to Sheberghan prison in Afghanistan. The site of the graves is believed to be in the Dasht-i-Leili desert just west of Sheberghan, in the Jowzjan Province.〔 〕〔(Dasht-e-Leili Photos; Sheberghan Prison and Pit Locations at Dasht-e-Leili ), Physicians for Human Rights, accessed 2012 Feb 19〕 Some of the prisoners were survivors of the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Mazar-i-Sharif. In 2009 Dostum denied the accusations.〔("'It Is Impossible Prisoners Were Abused' " )〕〔(Afghan Warlord Denies Links to ’01 Killings " )〕〔("A Response To General Dostum" )〕 According to all sources, many of the prisoners died from suffocation inside the containers, and some witnesses claimed that those who survived were shot. The dead were buried in 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.〔Philip Smucker, ("Afghan War Crimes a Low Priority" ), ''Christian Science Monitor'', September 12, 2002.〕 Some witnesses later alleged that U.S. troops were present. The allegations have been investigated since 2002 by Physicians for Human Rights (PHR). PHR conducted two forensic missions to the site under the auspices of the United Nations in 2002.〔Physicians for Human Rights, (Preliminary Assessment of Alleged Mass Gravesites in the Area of Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan (Amended) ) (pdf), 2002. Report amended December 12, 2008; the original 2002 report is still available from Physicians for Human Rights (on request ).〕 In 2008, PHR, working with the UN, documented that the grave had been tampered with.〔Heidi Vogt,"(UN confirms Afghan mass grave site disturbed )," ''USA Today'', December 12, 2008.〕 ==Controversy over responsibility and scale== In late 2001, around 8,000 Taliban fighters, including Chechens, Pakistanis and Uzbeks as well as suspected members of al-Qaeda, surrendered to the Junbish-i Milli faction of Northern Alliance General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U.S. ally in the war in Afghanistan, after the siege of Kunduz. Several hundred of the prisoners, among them American John Walker Lindh, came to be held in Qala-i-Jangi, a fort near Mazar-i-Sharif, where they staged a bloody uprising which took several days to quell. The remaining 7,500 were loaded onto containers for transport to Sheberghan prison, a journey that in some cases took several days.〔http://www.newsweek.com/id/65473/output/print〕 Human rights advocates say hundreds or thousands of them went missing. The first allegations that dozens of prisoners had suffocated in the containers appeared in a December 2001 ''New York Times'' article.〔 A 2002 documentary named ''Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death'' by Jamie Doran produced testimony from eyewitnesses alleging hundreds or even thousands of prisoners had died, either during transport in the containers or being shot and dumped in the Dasht-i-Leili desert after arriving at hopelessly overcrowded Sheberghan prison. Witnesses presented in the documentary also alleged that wounded and unconscious survivors of the container transports had been executed in the desert under supervision of U.S. soldiers. Doran's documentary, which was viewed by the European and German parliaments, caused widespread concern in Europe and among human rights advocates. It was not reported on in the United States mass media. Allegations of American involvement were disputed by Robert Young Pelton, who had been in the area reporting for National Geographic and CNN. Pelton also said the number of prisoners who suffocated in the containers was roughly 250, a far smaller number than alleged in Doran's documentary. He claims he saw US medics treating some of the prisoners. He says some of the bodies may be victims of the Taliban or of Malik's executions in the 1990s.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dasht-i-Leili massacre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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