Hundreds of Bodies Reported in Mass Graves
Authorities in northern Afghanistan said they have discovered mass graves containing the corpses of hundreds of people allegedly massacred by the Taliban.
A grave in Chamatal district, about 24 miles west of Mazar-i-Sharif, contained 350 bodies, said Mohammad Sardar Sayedi, spokesman for the main ethnic Hazara group, Hezb-i-Wahadat. All the dead were ethnic Hazaras, among them women and children probably killed in 1998 when Mazar-i-Sharif fell to the Taliban, he said.
Sayedi said at least two other mass graves were found in the nearby district of Qart-i-Zarhat.
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