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News Coverage of the Investigation of Dasht-e Leili

PHR's investigation of the mass grave at Dasht-e Leili generated over seven years of media coverage.

2009

• Accountability needed in Afghan massacre 7/24/09 (UPI)
• Obama pledges review of alleged mass grave in Afghanistan 7/23/09 (Worldfocus - PBS)
• A Mass Grave In Afghanistan Raises Questions 7/23/09 (Fresh Air - NPR) By Terry Gross
• Afghanistan’s Leader Skips an Election Debate, Claiming Bias 7/23/09 (New York Times) By Carlotta Gall and Abdul Waheed Wafa
• GlobalPost Chatter: Physicians for Human Rights is spearheading efforts to get the Obama administration to look into the case 7/23/09
• Afghan Warlord Denies Links to ’01 Killings 7/18/09 (New York Times) By Rich Oppel
• Hero on horseback, or mass murderer? 7/17/09 (GlobalPost) By Jean MacKenzie
• A Response To General Dostum 7/17/09 (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) By Sam Zarifi
• 'It Is Impossible Prisoners Were Abused' 7/17/09 (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) By Abdul Rashid Dostum
• The Truth About Dasht-i-Leili 7/14/09 (New York Times editorial)
• Truth about unsavory allies 7/14/09 (Boston Globe editorial)
• Dirty secrets 7/14/09 (San Francisco Chronicle editorial)
• Obama Calls For Facts On Mass Killing Of Taliban At Sheberghan 7/14/09 (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty) By Ron Synovits
• Obama Calls for Probe into 2001 Massacre of at Least 2,000 Suspected Taliban POWs by US-Backed Afghan Warlord 7/13/09 (Democracy Now!)
• Obama orders probe of killings in Afghanistan 7/13/09 (AFP)
• Obama 'examining Afghan killings' 7/13/09 (BBC)
• The Afghan ship-container 'massacre' 7/13/09 (BBC)
• Obama Faces a New Push to Look Back 7/12/09 (New York Times) By Scott Shane
• Obama orders review of alleged slayings of Taliban in Bush era 7/12/09 (CNN)
• Obama orders review of alleged Afghan mass grave 7/12/09 (AP)
• Obama admin: No grounds to probe Afghan war crimes 7/10/09 (AP) By Lara Jakes
• US Said to Have Averted Inquiry Into ’01 Afghan Killings 7/10/09 (New York Times) By James Risen

2008

• Mass grave plundered at site of Taleban prisoners’ massacre 12/24/08 (Times Online) By Tom Coghlan
• Mass graves still unguarded as US, UN, Afghans duck task 12/18/08 (McClatchy Newspapers) By Tom Lasseter
• UN to Assist in Preserving Mass Graves in Afghanistan 12/15/08 (Mother Jones) By Bruce Falconer
• Groups ask US, NATO to help secure Afghanistan gravesite 12/15/08 (McClatchy Newspapers) By Jonathan S. Landay
• AFGHANISTAN: UN commits to preserving mass grave sites 12/15/08 (IRIN)
• Lasseter Produces Afghan Scoop — Calls for Commitment to Foreign Coverage 12/15/08 (Editor & Publisher)
• UN confirms Afghan mass grave site disturbed 12/12/08 (AP) By Heidi Vogt
• UN: Afghan graves disturbed; physicians demand probe 12/12/08 (McClatchy Newspapers) By Tom Lasseter
• Afghan warlord Dostum is 'everyone's friend' 12/11/08 (McClatchy Newspapers) By Tom Lasseter
• As possible Afghan war-crimes evidence removed, US silent 12/11/08 (McClatchy Newspapers) By Tom Lasseter

2004

• From Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004 5/17/04 (History News Network) By Herbert P. Bix

2002

• US Afghan ally 'tortured witnesses to his war crimes' 11/18/02 (The Guardian) By Rory McCarthy
• Afghan war crimes a low priority 9/12/02 (Christian Science Monitor) By Phillip Smucker
• Political Realities Impeding Full Inquiry Into Afghan Atrocity 8/29/02 (New York Times) By John F. Burns
• Mass graves raise questions in Afghanistan 8/29/02 (CNN) By Matthew Chance
• The Death Convoy Of Afghanistan 8/26/02 (Newsweek) By Babak Dehghanpisheh, John Barry and Roy Gutman
• When does a massacre matter? 8/20/02 (Salon) By Michelle Goldberg
• Déjà-vu in Afghanistan 5/5-11/02 (Al-Ahram Weekly) By Iffat Malik
• Study Hints at Mass Killing of the Taliban 5/1/02 (New York Times) By Carlotta Gall