NP? Wounded prisoners shot and left to die

[Doug Millison]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,606622,00.html

Alliance accused of brutality in capture of Kunduz

Wounded prisoners shot and left to die

Rory McCarthy in Kabul and Nicholas Watt
Tuesday November 27, 2001

Victorious Northern Alliance troops swept into Kunduz in brutal style
yesterday, shooting wounded prisoners and leaving them to die in the city's
marketplace as they ended a two-week resistance by Taliban forces in their
last stronghold in northern Afghanistan. [...] In scenes that will fuel
criticisms of the alliance, and of Washington's backing of them, the
fly-covered bodies of three Afghan Taliban fighters were left on empty
stalls in Kunduz's marketplace. Local residents said that the men were
captured after they were wounded in fighting on Sunday. They were shot dead
by alliance forces yesterday.  [...]


http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,606748,00.html

"[...] Less than four hours later, American missiles plunged into the
stable area where the Taliban had been holed up, killing hundreds of
prisoners in an inferno. Gen Dostam, a Soviet-trained officer famed for his
ruthlessness, had approved the US decision to bomb the prisoners, some of
whom had played no part in the fighting. [...]"



http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp?story=107026

Kunduz falls, and a bloody vengeance is executed
Justin Huggler
27 November 2001

[...] People here spoke of street-to-street fighting at 7am, when the
Alliance troops led by General Mohammed Daud advanced into town. They said
the Taliban had been killed in the fighting. But some of the bodies lying
on the streets had their big toes tied together, so they could not run.
They had not died in fighting. They had been executed. And if the Afghan
Taliban were slaughtered, the foreigners can have little hope of anything
better. [...]


.......US taxpayers are footing the bill for these war crimes, too.
Something to think about this Advent season.