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The Dasht-e-Leili War Crimes Investigation

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Stephen Xenakis, MD

Retired Brigadier General

"Medical personnel have a duty to serve as a check to the line command and investigators, and as a constant reminder that all soldiers – even the enemy captured in combat – should be treated with dignity and humanely."

Stop Torture

Help PHR end all health and human rights abuses.

PHR Calls for Probe into Removal of Mass Grave in Afghanistan

Reports that Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum removed evidence of potential war crimes from the Dasht-e-Leili mass grave in northern Afghanistan, as revealed by McClatchy Newspapers, demand investigation both in Afghanistan and in the United States.