Soviet Jail Discovered in Afghanistan
Afghanistan’s police discovered a secret jail on the territory of a former Soviet military base. Remains of hundreds of prisoners were found there, a high-placed officer of Kabul criminal police told BBC on Friday.
The officer said that dead bodies were found in the jail’s 15 chambers, many of them with tied hands and eyes. “Apparently, the prisoners were buried alive. We have already discovered almost 100 bodies, but there might be much more eventually,” the officer said. According to some sources, the jail’s location was indicated by an Afghani man who worked as a driver at the Soviet base.
The news was disproved on Friday by Army General Mahmud Gareev, the president of the Military Sciences Academy in present, and the chief military advisor in Afghanistan in 1989-1990. “It is a primitively compiled disinformation. There were no, and could be no prison chambers where the 40th army units were deployed on Afghan land,” Gareev said.
The general added that the Soviet troops transferred the sites of their deployment to Afghan authorities, upon leaving, and the sites were thoroughly studied. “Keeping secret jails is a tradition of the militants. Every more or less known militant chief kept the so-called zidans in the years of the Afghan war. There were prisoners, including Soviet soldiers, there.”
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