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The first phase of the war began with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and first battles with various opposition groups. [133] Soviet troops entered Afghanistan along two ground routes and one air corridor, quickly taking control of the major urban centers, military bases and strategic installations. However, the presence of Soviet troops did ...
Operation Storm-333 (Russian: Шторм-333, Štorm-333) was a military raid executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979. Special forces and airborne troops stormed the heavily fortified Tajbeg Palace in Kabul and assassinated Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, a Khalqist of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who had taken power in the Saur Revolution of April ...
After gaining power, the Khalqists unleashed a campaign of "red terror", killing more than 27,000 people in the Pul-e-Charkhi prison, prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. [12] Political scientist Olivier Roy estimated between 50,000 and 100,000 people disappeared during the Taraki–Amin period. [14]
The Kunduz massacre was a war crime perpetrated by the Soviet Army on 22 December 1984 in the village of Haji Rahmatullah in the Kunduz Province, during the Soviet–Afghan War. Around 250 civilians were reportedly killed [ 1 ] [ 2 ] in what was described as Soviet reprisals against civilians for anti-communist resistance members and their ...
The Soviet Army then fired with machine guns at the entrances, causing massive explosions of the canals. [2] The people inside the canal were killed by being burned alive. [4] They were either hiding to avoid military drafting [3] or were afraid of Soviet attacks. [5] The Soviet soldiers laughed and cheered after the explosions. [6]
The Rauzdi massacre or Rauza massacre was a war crime perpetrated by the Soviet Army on 30 June 1983 in the village of Rauzdi, in the Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, during the Soviet–Afghan War. According to an Amnesty International report, 24 people were killed. [1] [2]
Afghanistan will be turned into a center of terrorism." [12] U.S. troops in 2011 surveying the Salang Pass during the War in Afghanistan, the route used by Soviet forces during the invasion 32 years before. As many as 35,000 non-Afghan Muslim fighters went to Afghanistan between 1982 and 1992. [26]
War crimes in Afghanistan covers the period of conflict from 1979 to the present. Starting with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, 40 years of civil war in various forms has wracked Afghanistan.