Dasht-i-Leili massacre

The Dasht-i-Leili massacre occurred in December 2001 when hundreds of Taliban prisoners were suffocated in metal truck containers while being transferred by U.S. and Northern Alliance soldiers to prison from Kunduz, Afghanistan. The bodies are believed to be buried in Dasht-i-Leili, near Sheberghan.

The exact number of victims is still not known because there was no count of those loaded onto the trucks nor of prisoners who made it to the prison. Also, the United Nations refuses to investigate the mass graves unless accompanied by international military support, which has yet to be promised.

In August 2002, Abdul Rashid Dostum and a rival warlord admitted that more than 200 prisoners died in the airless containers, but blamed the deaths on wounds and illnesses before capture.