
Afshar Massacred by Ahmad shah Masoud and Sayaf in 1993 According to The Guardian, November 16, 2001: “On February 11, 1993, Massoud and Sayyaf’s forces entered the Hazara suburb of Afshar, killing – by local accounts – “up to 1,000 civilians”, beheading old men, women, children and even their dogs, stuffing their bodies down the […]
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Liaquat Ali Hazara, September 28, 2010: Unknown terrorists opened fire on a vehicle carrying four innocent Hazara grocers in Hazar Ganji, Quetta at 11:00 AM local time, killing two of them on the spot and injuring two others. The grocers were returning home from Hazara Ganji when armed men targeted them with automatic assault gun. […]

Wednesday 29 April 2009, by Kamran Mir Hazar KabulPress.org: People in Daikondi have been demonstrating for several days, asking the government and international community to discharge the corrupt governor Orazgoni and a judge accused of sexual abuse, Shirzad. They also want the immediate release five individuals who were imprisoned for disclosing information about official corruption […]

Media Advisory 28 March 2001 AI Index ASA 11/007/2001 – News Service Nr. 56 Afghanistan: Massacre in Yakaolang Amnesty International today issued a report on January’s massacre of over 300 unarmed men and a number of civilian women and children by Taleban forces in Yakaolang, in Bamiyan province. According to eyewitness accounts, Taleban forces began […]
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Amnesty International has now obtained detailed information which corroborates earlier reports of the massacre of civilians in Yakaolang in the central province of Bamiyan. According to eyewitness reports, Taleban forces began to arrest people and summarily execute them when they recaptured Yakaolang on 7 January this year. They had lost Yakaolang to Hezb-e Wahdat – […]
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23 January 2001 AI Index AFA 11/001/2001 – News Service Nr. 013 Afghanistan: summary execution of civilians in Yakaolang Amnesty International today condemned the summary execution of scores of Afgan civilians by Taleban forces after their capture of the district of Yakaolang in December 2000. The victims, all male and as young as 13 years […]
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News Service 159/98 AI INDEX: ASA 11/06/98 17 AUGUST 1998 The Taleban’s refusal to allow independent monitoring of the situation in the northern areas of Afghanistan — following the fall of Mazar-e Sharif and several other major towns to the Taleban last week — could serve to conceal the human rights violations in the area, […]

AI INDEX: ASA 11/07/98 News Service 171/98 3 SEPTEMBER 1998 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Afghanistan: Thousands of civilians killed following Taleban takeover of Mazar-e Sharif Taleban guards deliberately and systematically killed thousands of ethnic Hazara civilians during the first three days following their military takeover of Mazar-e Sharif on 8 August 1998, according to new […]
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September 1997 In Amnesty International’s view, countries that support warring factions must share responsibility with the armed groups in Afghanistan for the latest massacre reported from Mazar-e Sharif in which some 70 civilians, including women and children, were taken prisoner, then maimed and killed. This is yet another chapter in the sad history of a […]