Shipping-container death rates for Afghan detainees approached 90 percent

Evidence

Shortly after 9/11, men and some children rounded up from the villages and battlefields of Afghanistan were herded into shipping containers by the Northern Alliance (at the behest of the United States). Many died; it is estimated that only thirty to fifty in each container of three to four hundred apparently survived. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 80

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader reading on the post-9/11 security regime and extralegal detention (Guantanamo, extraordinary rendition).
• SEED: Angle: the logistics of massacre — how the US outsourced killing to the Northern Alliance by routing prisoners through containers.
• DEEPTHINKING: flagged by the selector, no supporting note recorded