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Amnesty veroordeelt Britse regering
janko - 02.12.2001 02:27
Amnesty International heeft de Britse regering gisteren veroordeeld omdat deze niet wil instemmen met een onderzoek naar de moord op de 400 gevangenen in Qalai Janghi bij Mazar-i Sharif.
An Amnesty spokesman said: "The rejection of an inquiry by the United Kingdom into what is apparently the single most bloody incident of the war, during which serious abuses of international human rights and humanitarian law may have been committed, raises questions about its commitment to the rule of law."
The United Nations high commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson, joined Amnesty International in calling for an inquiry into the massacres at Qalai Janghi fort, notably into the proportionality of the response by the Northern Alliance, and the US and UK forces who called in air strikes to help crush a revolt by about 600 armed Taliban prisoners.
 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=107744
 E-Mail: jvanberkel@hotmail.com
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"Angered by the death of Spann - the first American known to have died in the conflict - the director of the CIA, George Tenet, accused the Taliban of premeditated murder."
| | Villagers Dying Under U.S. Bombs | janko - 03.12.2001 11:52
Villagers Dying Under U.S. Bombs, Anti-Taliban Forces Say
Tim Weiner New York Times Service
Monday, December 3, 2001
JALALABAD, Afghanistan - Despite the Pentagon´s denials, hundreds of innocent civilians are being killed and wounded in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Afghan commanders who rule this region said Sunday.
The anti-Taliban, pro-American commanders blame bad intelligence and what they perceive as American indifference to civilian casualties in the campaign against terrorism.
More in International Herald Tribune http://www.iht.com/articles/40678.html
| | River of victims | janko - 04.12.2001 00:52
The river of victims runs through another war
By Robert Fisk in Chaman
4 December 2001
From all over the countryside, there come stories of villages crushed by American bombs; an entire hamlet destroyed by B-52s at Kili Sarnad, 50 dead near Tora Bora, eight civilians killed in cars bombed by US jets on the road to Kandahar, another 46 in Lashkargah, 12 more in Bibi Mahru.
We are not supposed to know the details of these deaths. "Investigation?" the US Defence Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, roared at a press conference last week, claiming he knew nothing of Amnesty International´s call for an inquiry into the Mazar-i-Sharif prison massacre. "I can think of a dozen things people can inquire into in Afghanistan."
So can I. There´s the hanged man in Kandahar. Then there´s the sweating man with no legs. And the begging five-year-old. And the old couple in the wheelbarrows and the awful Cyclops with the pustulant right eye and the dead of Takhte-Pul and Kili Sarnad and Lashkargah and Bibi Mahru and the whole, swelling mass of humanity standing in the squalor of Chaman. Not to mention the slaughter at Mazar-i-Sharif. And the War for Civilisation.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=108198
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