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Transcript: A Mass Grave In Afghanistan Raises Questions
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TERRY GROSS
NPR Fresh Air
07-23-2009
A Mass Grave In Afghanistan Raises Questions
Host: TERRY GROSS
Time 12:00-13:00 PM
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TERRY GROSS, host:
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Earlier this month, James Risen, of the New York Times, reported that Bush administration officials had repeatedly discouraged efforts to investigate the mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners by the forces of an American-backed warlord, General Abdul Rashid Dostum. This was during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. The mass grave in which the bodies were hidden was discovered in early 2002 by members of Physicians for Human Rights. The group has been investigating the story ever ...