The mass grave at Dasht-e-Leili in northern Afghanistan is thought to contain the remains of between 1,000 and 2,000 Taleban prisoners massacred by fighters loyal to the Uzbek warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum in November 2001. The killings occurred in the remote Leili desert as General Dostum’s forces fought alongside US special forces. Prisoners were packed into sealed shipping containers and left to suffocate. Others are alleged to have died when fighters riddled other containers full of prisoners with bullets before burning and burying the bodies.
(...) General Dostum, the alleged perpetrator of the massacre, was chief of staff to the Afghan National Army until this year. He retains strong support among the Uzbek population in the north and won 10 per cent of the vote in the 2004 presidential elections.
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