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Five UN staff, two Afghan security personnel and an Afghan civilians were killed. [103] 2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing: August 15, 2009: Kabul: 7 killed and 91 wounded Attack was carried out by a Taliban suicide bomber. [104] 2009 Kandahar bombing: August 25, 2009: Kandahar: 43 killed and 65+ wounded The Taliban were thought to be ...
[4] [3] [5] The Hazaras primarily come from the central regions of Afghanistan, known as Hazarajat. Significant communities of Hazara people also live in Quetta, Pakistan and in Mashad, Iran, as part of the Hazara and Afghan diasporas. Map of Kabul Province and its surroundings showing the boundaries of the different Hazara tribes in 1893 ...
Afghanistan-Pakistan: heads of state of Afghanistan, Taliban, Haqqani network, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, ISIL, Pashtuns, Kochi people: 1888–1893 Suppression of 1888–1893 Uprisings of Hazaras: Hazarajat: Afghan army under Abdur Rahman Khan: Thousands [5] [6] to 409,500 Hazaras according to a Hazara author [7] February 11–12, 1993 Afshar ...
Estimates of Afghan civilian deaths vary from 562,000 [6] to 2,000,000. [7] [8] Human Rights Watch concluded that the Soviet Red Army and the Afghan Army perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity in Afghanistan, intentionally targeting civilians and civilian areas for attack, and killing and torturing prisoners. [9]
Ethnic cleansing, Genocide, slavery [1] Victims: Estimates: 320,000 Hazara families killed or enslaved and 80,000 of them displaced [1] 66,000 to 79,200 Hazara families [N 1] Over 60% of the Hazara population of Hazarajat were killed and some displaced. [4] Perpetrators: Afghan army under Abdur Rahman joined by Sunni volunteers from various ...
#StopHazaraGenocide is a social media campaign that aims to raise awareness and demand action against the persecution and violence faced by the Hazara ethnic group. [1] The campaign was initiated by Hazaras in response to a series of deadly attacks on the Hazara community, especially students and women, by the Taliban and other extremist groups.
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIGRC) called the Taliban's terrorism against the Afghan civilian population a war crime. [9] According to Amnesty International, the Taliban commit war crimes by targeting civilians, including killing teachers, abducting aid workers and burning school buildings.
The Mazar-i-Sharif massacre was one of the worst incidents in the Afghan Civil War, and it highlighted the need for an end to the conflict. Although the massacre did not receive much global attention or garner much official outrage at the time, human rights organizations like Human Rights Watch have since conducted investigations shedding light ...