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The Kandahar massacre, also called the Panjwai massacre, [1] was a mass murder that occurred in the early hours of 11 March 2012, when United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales murdered 16 Afghan civilians and wounded six others in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Robert Bales (born June 30, 1973) is an American mass murderer and former Army sniper who murdered 16 Afghan civilians in a mass shooting in Panjwayi District, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, on March 11, 2012 – an event known as the Kandahar massacre.
The Giant Buddhas (2005) is a documentary film by Swiss filmmaker Christian Frei about the destruction of the Buddhas of Bamyan in Afghanistan by the Taliban in March 2001. [ 1 ] The film premiered in August 2005 and was released in March 2006. [ 2 ]
15-year-old Gul Mudin, killed by U.S. Army SPC Jeremy Morlock and PFC Andrew Holmes on January 15, 2010. All three of the staged killings of Afghan civilians occurred in the Maywand District of Afghanistan: On January 15, 2010, in the village of La Mohammad Kalay, fifteen-year-old Gul Mudin was doing farm work for his father. He was unarmed.
In February 2005, U.S. Senator John McCain called for the establishment of permanent U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, [1] saying such bases would be "for the good of the American people, because of the long-term security interests we have in the region".
The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
In May 2005, the advance party of 3/3's sister battalion, the 2/3, arrived in Regional Command East. Even before deploying to Afghanistan 2/3's, intelligence officer Captain Scott Westerfield and his assistants had been tracking a small cell led by a man named Ahmad Shah, based on intelligence sent back by 3/3's intelligence officer. Shah was ...
Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death (earlier title: Massacre at Mazar) [1] is a 2002 documentary by Irish filmmaker Jamie Doran and Afghan journalist Najibullah Quraishi.It documents alleged war crimes committed by National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan, a faction of the Northern Alliance under the command of General Abdul Rashid Dostum, against captured Taliban fighters.