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The Maywand District murders were the thrill killings of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from January to May 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. The soldiers, who referred to themselves as the "Kill Team", [ 1 ] [ 2 ] were members of the 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company , 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry ...
On 5 August 2010, ten members of International Assistance Mission (IAM) Nuristan Eye Camp team were killed in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan. [1] [2] The team was attacked as it was returning from Nuristan to Kabul. One team member was spared while the rest of the team were killed immediately.
The investigation concerns war crimes and crimes against humanity committed since 1 May 2003, in the context of the war in Afghanistan, by the Taliban and affiliated armed groups, war crimes by the Afghan National Security Forces, and war crimes committed in Afghanistan, Poland, Romania and Lithuania by United States Armed Forces and the United ...
The murder of Mohebullah refers to the 2010 shooting of prisoner Mohebullah in Afghanistan by a US soldier who later pleaded guilty and was convicted by a U.S. military judge. On October 17, 2010 "in a jail cell at a U.S. outpost in Afghanistan" [ 1 ] prisoner Muhebullah was shot to death after Private First Class David Lawrence had unlocked ...
Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court will investigate whether war crimes were committed in Afghanistan by the Taliban, Afghan military and U.S. forces after an appeals panel said on ...
Northern, central and western Afghanistan +15,000 United Nations: "These are the same type of war crimes as were committed in Bosnia and should be prosecuted in national courts". [52] See some campaigns listed below. The Hazara claim the Taliban executed 15,000 of their people in their campaign through northern and central Afghanistan. [53]
Of the 711 foreign soldiers killed in 2010, 630 were killed in action. 368 of those were killed by IEDs, which is around 36% of the total IED-killed since the start of the war to date. [ 53 ] The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) recorded 1,271 Afghan civilian deaths in the American-led war in the first half of 2010.
Soldiers from the base have been linked to other atrocities and crimes. The 2010 Maywand District murders involved JBLM-based soldiers. [15] Also in 2010, a recently discharged AWOL soldier from JBLM shot a police officer in Salt Lake City. [18] In April 2011, a JBLM soldier killed his wife and 5-year-old son before killing himself. [16]