Dasht-i-Leili massacre
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In December 2001, between 250 and 2,000 Taliban insurgents who had surrendered to the National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan were massacred while being transported to Sheberghan Prison in the Jowzja
A mass grave containing Taliban prisoners in the Leili Desert, as discovered during a joint investigation by Physicians for Human Rights and the United Nations in 2002
John Walker Lindh
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John Philip Walker Lindh is an American Taliban member who was captured by United States forces as an enemy combatant during the United States' invasion of Afghanistan in November 2001. He was detaine
Dasht-i-Leili massacre
…General Abdul Rashid Dostum, a U.S. ally in the war in Afghanistan, after the siege of Kunduz. Several hundred of the prisoners, among them American John Walker Lindh, came to be held in Qala-i-Jangi, a fort near Mazar-i-Sharif, where they staged a bloody uprising which took several days to quell. The remaining 7,500…
Lindh in January 2002
Lindh photographed after being transported to Camp Rhino