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Documentary of US 'war crimes' shocks Europe
June 12 2002 at 05:28PM
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=3&art_id=qw
1023894901416B265&set_id=
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By Clive Freeman
Berlin - American soldiers have been involved in the
torture and murder of captured Taliban prisoners,
and may have aided in the "disappearance" of up
to 3 000 men in the region of Mazar-i-Sharif,
according to Jamie Doran, an Irish documentary
film-maker.
Doran's latest film, Massacre At Mazar, was shown
on Wednesday in in the Reichstag, the German
parliament building in Berlin, and there were
immediate calls for an international commission to
be set up to investigate charges made in the
documentary.
Andrew McEntee, a leading international human
rights lawyer, who has viewed the film footage and
read full transcripts, believes there is prima facie
evidence of serious war crimes having been
committed by American soldiers in Afghanistan.
'The Americans did whatever they wanted'
McEntee, who was in Berlin for Wednesday's
special screening, said war crimes had been
committed not just under international law but, also,
"under the laws of the United States itself".
Much of the footage shown in Doran's 20-minute
documentary was taken secretly, and although
witnesses were said to be living in fear of reprisal
from within Afghanistan itself they had all agreed to
appear at any future international war crimes tribunal
to give evidence, it was claimed.
One witness in the film claimed he had seen an
American soldier break an Afghan prisoner's neck
and pour acid on others. "The Americans did
whatever they wanted. We had no power to stop
them," he alleged.
Sometimes prisoners who were beaten up and
taken outside had "disappeared", he said.
In other sequences witnesses, among them two
men, claimed they had been forced to drive into the
desert with hundreds of Taliban prisoners.
The living were then summarily shot while 30 to 40
American soldiers purportedly stood by, it was
alleged. The prisoners had been taken there on
the orders of the local American commander,
according to the documentary.
In the film, an Afghan witness admitted to killing
prisoners himself, and another officer, allegedly a
senior officer in the army of deputy defence
minister Dostum's forces, was said to have gone
into hiding following threats to his life.
The far-left Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS)
arranged for the special showing of Massacre At
Mazar in the Reichstag. Party chairman Roland
Claus was cautious regarding its content but did
spoke of its attempt at "authenticity."
Andre Brie, a PDS member of the European
Parliament, concerned by reports of ill treatment of
Taliban prisoners, said he would be in favour of an
international commission looking into "disturbing"
questions raised by the film.
At a press conference Brie said he had known of
Doran's dangerous film activity in Afghanistan, and
had helped to support him financially.
The PDS party faction had wanted to obtain
authentic footage of the war in Afghanistan, he said.
The film was due to be screened at the European
Parliament in Strasbourg later on Wednesday
evening. - Sapa-DPA
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