Produced and directed by Irish filmmaker and former BBC producer Jamie
Doran, the film tells the story of thousands of prisoners who
surrendered to the US military's Afghan allies after the siege of
Kunduz. According to the film, some three thousand of the prisoners were
forced into sealed containers and loaded onto trucks for transport to
Sheberghan prison. When the prisoners began shouting for air,
U.S.-allied Afghan soldiers fired directly into the truck, killing many
of them. The rest suffered through an appalling road trip lasting up to
four days, so thirsty they clawed at the skin of their fellow prisoners
as they licked perspiration and even drank blood from open wounds.
Witnesses say that when the trucks arrived and soldiers opened the
containers, most of the people inside were dead. They also say US
Special Forces re-directed the containers carrying the living and dead
into the desert and stood by as survivors were shot and buried. Now, up
to three thousand bodies lie buried in a mass grave. Outraged human
rights groups and lawyers are calling for an investigation but the U.N.
special envoy to Afghanistan refuses any U.N.-backed investigation until
the Afghan government can protect witnesses. Two of the witnesses in
the film have already been killed.
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