military headquarters at Bagram air base on Tuesday, where he hung out at the mess hall, played cards with soldiers and answered their questions. Army's top enlisted man is making a morale-boosting visit to Afghanistan. On a recent visit, a Reuters team saw Afghan and Pakistani inmates crammed 20 to a cell, many sleeping on bare stone floors and more than a dozen suffering from tuberculosis.īut there was none of the severe malnutrition that shocked a visiting European Union ambassador, Klaus-Peter Klaiber of Germany, in May into comparing conditions with the infamous Nazi death camp of Auschwitz. Serious human rights abuses have been committed by various rival factions including the Taliban during the past 23 years of occupation and civil war in Afghanistan.ĭostum, under Western pressure and helped by the International Committee of the Red Cross, has eased the misery of captives at Sheberghan jail. He adds that "there is no forensic expertise at this point in the country and if any investigation were to be undertaken, it would need to have - most likely - international expertise." spokesman added that the international body believes that any further forensic work done at the site where the bodies were found should begin only "after an effective witness protection scheme has been put in place." "Absence of blunt force trauma, sharp force injury or firearm injury led the team to conclude that the cause of death was consistent with death due to suffocation." "The investigation confirmed the existence of a large grave area of recent origin and that three bodies were exhumed for autopsy," said Manoel de Almeida e Silva, the U.N. The United Nations said the deaths appeared to be the result of suffocation in Dasht-e Leili, where thousands of other Taliban prisoners had been buried after being killed by the forces of Northern Alliance commander General Abdul Malik in 1997. In response, the United States said on Monday it was pressing the Afghan government to investigate the allegations. Newsweek magazine reported over the weekend that more than 1,000 of the prisoners allegedly died while in transport in containers after they surrendered.
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