UN Confirms Mass Grave Site Disturbed

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UN Confirms Mass Grave Site Disturbed
December 13, 2008
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.N. confirmed a mass grave in northern Afghanistan was disturbed, raising the possibility that evidence supporting allegations of a massacre seven years ago may have been removed.

The Dasht-e-Leili grave site holds as many as 2,000 bodies of Taliban prisoners who died in transit after surrendering during one of the regime's last stands in November 2001, according to a State Department report from 2002.

McClatchy Newspapers first reported the tampering with the grave site on Thursday.

"We can confirm that the site at Dasht-e-Leili has been disturbed," said Dan McNorton, a spokesman for the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. He declined to say how or when the site had changed, saying that details would be available in an upcoming report.

Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights, which discovered the Dasht-e-Leili site in 2002 and has performed autopsies on some of the bodies, said its researchers found two large pits at the site, both about 100 feet (30 meters) by 50 feet (15 meters), in July that appeared to have been dug this year.


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