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17th December 2002, 18:00
New dispute
U.S. government criticizes ARD film about Afghanistan massacres
Another conflict dulls the German American relationship. "The massacre in Afghanistan" protests solidly the radiation of the controversial documentary movie for the U.S. government in ARD. The film of the Irishman Jamie Doran seems to cover cruel war crimes of the Americans. The U.S. State Department disputes the reproaches.
Hamburg/Washington hardly are relationship provisionally detoxifies between Germany and America, a new diplomatic disagreement threatens the political. An ARD documentation about a massacre in Afghanistan which shall be radiated on this Wednesday (21.55 hours) has led to heavy criticism of the U.S. government.
The documentation according to, this one in Germany the title " the massacre in Afghanistan -- have the Americans watched one's activities "? carries, 3000 have disappeared under the supreme command of the U.S. forces of altogether 8000 captured Taliban during the Afghanistanfeldzugs. The disarmed God warriors should be brought to the city of Scheberghan by the fortress Kalai Dschangi to prison but many never arrived according to the investigations of Doran there. The Dokumentarfilmer collected proofs of it, that according to an information of its own in Afghanistan the men murdered away and following have been in a mass grave located at Scheberghan in the desert verscharrt. According to statement of eyewitnesses this happened under the eyes of U.S. soldiers.
The State Department, Larry Schwartz, is, "mysterious the facts completely are wrong why a respected television organization wants to show a documentation and the U.S. mission characterizes which in an unfair way in Afghanistan for us" the speaker criticized. U.S. circles held "left" elements which wanted to discredit the U.S. military action in Afghanistan responsible for the continuance of the reproaches. The 45-minute feature program was already shown to Rai at the British transmitter Channel 5 and for the Italian sending institution according to information of ARD.
NDR culture television boss Thomas Schreiber explained in Hamburg on Tuesday that eyewitnesses would have seen U.S. soldiers both at the events in Scheberghan and at the place of the mass grave in Dascht-I Leili. In addition, the statement of the U.S. State Department is in clear contradiction to the details of the Pentagon to which there hasn't been any examination of the events by the U.S. forces till now made in the film. For the unequivocal clearing up an internal examination of the U.S. Ministry of Defense as well as the exhumation of the mass graves and the post-mortem examination and identification of the corpses are therefore necessary by the Uno.
In front of a Uno committee, on Monday, Jamie Doran had to say, said that all witnesses questioned by him would have agreed, at the presentation of his film in Berlin. The free writer-director demanded even a "witness protection program" because already two men have been murdered within the weeks after the lathe works. According to information from Doran the documentation was sold in eleven countries in the meantime. The film shall be radiated also in the USA.
U.S. government criticizes ARD film about Afghanistan massacres
Another conflict dulls the German American relationship. "The massacre in Afghanistan" protests solidly the radiation of the controversial documentary movie for the U.S. government in ARD. The film of the Irishman Jamie Doran seems to cover cruel war crimes of the Americans. The U.S. State Department disputes the reproaches.
Hamburg/Washington hardly are relationship provisionally detoxifies between Germany and America, a new diplomatic disagreement threatens the political. An ARD documentation about a massacre in Afghanistan which shall be radiated on this Wednesday (21.55 hours) has led to heavy criticism of the U.S. government.
The documentation according to, this one in Germany the title " the massacre in Afghanistan -- have the Americans watched one's activities "? carries, 3000 have disappeared under the supreme command of the U.S. forces of altogether 8000 captured Taliban during the Afghanistanfeldzugs. The disarmed God warriors should be brought to the city of Scheberghan by the fortress Kalai Dschangi to prison but many never arrived according to the investigations of Doran there. The Dokumentarfilmer collected proofs of it, that according to an information of its own in Afghanistan the men murdered away and following have been in a mass grave located at Scheberghan in the desert verscharrt. According to statement of eyewitnesses this happened under the eyes of U.S. soldiers.
The State Department, Larry Schwartz, is, "mysterious the facts completely are wrong why a respected television organization wants to show a documentation and the U.S. mission characterizes which in an unfair way in Afghanistan for us" the speaker criticized. U.S. circles held "left" elements which wanted to discredit the U.S. military action in Afghanistan responsible for the continuance of the reproaches. The 45-minute feature program was already shown to Rai at the British transmitter Channel 5 and for the Italian sending institution according to information of ARD.
NDR culture television boss Thomas Schreiber explained in Hamburg on Tuesday that eyewitnesses would have seen U.S. soldiers both at the events in Scheberghan and at the place of the mass grave in Dascht-I Leili. In addition, the statement of the U.S. State Department is in clear contradiction to the details of the Pentagon to which there hasn't been any examination of the events by the U.S. forces till now made in the film. For the unequivocal clearing up an internal examination of the U.S. Ministry of Defense as well as the exhumation of the mass graves and the post-mortem examination and identification of the corpses are therefore necessary by the Uno.
In front of a Uno committee, on Monday, Jamie Doran had to say, said that all witnesses questioned by him would have agreed, at the presentation of his film in Berlin. The free writer-director demanded even a "witness protection program" because already two men have been murdered within the weeks after the lathe works. According to information from Doran the documentation was sold in eleven countries in the meantime. The film shall be radiated also in the USA.