Talk:Pul-e-Charkhi prison

Afghanistan Low‑importance

	Afghanistan portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Afghanistan, a project to maintain and expand Afghanistan-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.AfghanistanWikipedia:WikiProject AfghanistanTemplate:WikiProject AfghanistanAfghanistan
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Correction and Detention Facilities (defunct)

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Correction and Detention Facilities, a project which is currently considered to be defunct.Correction and Detention FacilitiesWikipedia:WikiProject Correction and Detention FacilitiesTemplate:WikiProject Correction and Detention FacilitiesCorrection and Detention Facilities

27,000?

I was skeptical of this figure, especially the notion that more individuals were killed in that prison than during the entire Katyn massacre. I couldn't find any independent substantiation from Google for the 27,000 figure, except Kaplan.

I found this.

https://archive.org/stream/MappingReportAfghanistan3/Mapping%20Report%20Afghanistan-3_djvu.txt (there were 27,000 people who have been registered as missing.) https://books.google.com/books?id=Qybb778iQJ4C&pg=PA96&lpg=PA96&dq=Pul-i-Charkhi+27,000+mike+barryf=false (claims the figure came from Mike Barry) https://books.google.com/books?id=RUSNyMH1aFQC&pg=PA273#v=onepage&q&f=false (this was from the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan article; it say 17,000) 134.139.30.10 (talk) 00:16, 21 September 2016 (UTC)Reply

Add topic