{"article":{"id":17285,"heading":"AMERICAN WAR CRIMES IN AFGHANISTAN EXPOSED!","author":"HERMAN GOERRING","created":"2002-06-22 22:17:35","modified":"2013-11-10 23:43:25","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:43:25","article":"

World Socialist Website

Afghan war documentary charges US with mass killings of POWs

Showings in Europe spark demands for war crimes probe

By Stefan Steinberg

17 June 2002

A documentary film, Massacre in Mazar, by Irish director Jamie Doran, was shown to selected audiences in Europe last week, provoking demands for an international inquiry into US war crimes in Afghanistan.





































































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