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Primarily ethnic Hazaras. Some other Northern Alliance supporters were targeted as well. The 1998 Mazar-i-Sharif massacre took place in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998. At least 2,000 victims were murdered by the Taliban, with Human Rights Watch estimating that the actual number of victims may be much higher.
8 August 1998: 1400 soldiers from the Hazara army, and additional 8000+ noncombatants killed. The Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif were a part of the Afghan Civil War and took place in 1997 and 1998 between the forces of Abdul Malik Pahlawan and his Hazara allies, Junbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan, and the Taliban.
Following the 1997 massacre of 3,000 Taliban prisoners by Abdul Malik Pahlawan in Mazar-i-Sharif [42] [43] thousands of Hazaras were massacred by other Taliban members in the same city in August 1998. [44]
On November 7 and 8, as the Taliban were moving 4,000 fighters across the countryside towards Mazar-i-Sharif in preparation for battle, American [2] [14] B-52 bombers bombed Taliban defenders concentrated in the Cheshmeh-ye Shafa gorge that marked the southern entrance to the city, [16] as well as the Haji Gak pass, which was the only Taliban ...
9. For collaborating with the government and the spying, Taliban committed incredibly massacre of Hazaras. December 6, 2011. 2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings. Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul, Kandahar. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. 78 killed and more than 150 wounded. July 2, 2015. The massacre of Hazaras in Jalrez District.
1998 killing of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan. On 8 August 1998, amidst the Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif, the Iranian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif was attacked as the Taliban were besieging the city. Initially, only the deaths of eight Iranian diplomats was reported, but two other diplomats and a journalist were later confirmed dead as well ...
Climate. BSk. Mazar-i-Sharīf (/ məˈzæri ʃəˈriːf / mə-ZARR-ee shə-REEF; Dari and Pashto: مزار شریف), also known as Mazar-e Sharīf or simply Mazar, is the third-largest city in Afghanistan by population, with an estimated 500,207 residents in 2021. [1] It is the capital of Balkh province and is linked by highways with Kunduz in ...
Near Mazar-i-Sharif, Northern Afghanistan May to July 1997: about 3000 killed or wounded; September to December 1997: 86 civilians killed; 8 August 1998: 1400 soldiers from the Hazara army and additional 8000+ noncombatant killed [55] [56] Anti-Hazara massacre in Mazar-i-Sharif: August 8 –10, 1998 Mazar-i-Sharif: 2,000 to 20,000 [57] [58] [59]