The bodies of hundreds of Taliban prisoners massacred...

The bodies of hundreds of Taliban prisoners massacred by Northern Alliance soldiers have been discovered by United Nations investigators in what is the worst atrocity so far of the Afghan war.
The UN says the prisoners were herded into metal freight containers after the capture of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif in November 2001 and left to suffocate in the searing heat before being dumped in the desert. The freight containers have long been used as makeshift prisons throughout the country - and it is not the first time suffocation has been used as a method of execution by the Northern Alliance.
In 1997, the last time the Alliance forces captured Mazar-i-Sharif, they put more than 1,000 Taliban prisoners into the containers, drove them out into the same desert and left them to die in the summer heat.
The Taliban replied in kind a year later when it killed 6,000 men, women and children in a weeklong orgy of violence after it recaptured the city.