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FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: AFGHAN MASSACRE: CONVOY OF DEATH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton F Van Der Ven)
Wed May 7 22:40:34 2003
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Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 22:40:16 -0400
From: Anton F Van Der Ven <avdv@MIT.EDU>
MIT Social Justice Cooperative
Presents
AFGHAN MASSACRE: CONVOY OF DEATH
(50 minutes, released to the public March 2003)
Friday, May 9, 8:00 pm
Room 4-231
NOVEMBER 2001, AFGHANISTAN. 3000 prisoners of war in Afghanistan are
massacred while under the custody of Allied forces.
Extensive evidence suggests that US special forces were involved in
the massacre.
Award-winning independent filmmaker Jamie Doran attempts to unravel the
story behind how thousands of Afghanis were taken prisoner in steel
containers and were later left in the desert to suffocate or shot before
being disposed in mass graves recently discovered near Mazar-i-Sharif.
Doran extensively interviews eyewitnesses who contend that large numbers
of US forces were present at every step of the process. Doran released a
rough cut of the film during the summer of 2002, out of fear that allied
forces were covering up the evidence.
Since Doran conducted the interviews, some of the witnesses have been
assassinated. He makes an urgent plea for a legimitate international war
crimes investigation.
It is "clear there is prima facie evidence of serious war crimes committed
not just under international law, but also under the laws of the United
States itself."
-International human rights lawyer Andrew McEntee, after seeing the film.
website for information about Jamie Doran by the film producers:
http://www.acftv.net/jamie_doran_biography.asp
A good website for information about the film is:
http://noleaders.net/anok/news/masskillings.htm
(thanks to Sam Arey for above synopsis)
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http://web.mit.edu/justice/film/
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