Summary Execution at Lal Wa Sarjangal District, Ghor (2022)

Incident
Date
Apr 4, 2024
Incident date
2022/26/06
Dates of incident
Jun 26, 2022 ~ Jun 26, 2022
Year of incident
2022
Province of incident
Ghor: Lal Wa Sarjangal
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 34.4820709740905

Longitude: 66.2698739598092

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Lal Wa Sarjangal
Town/Village
Lal Wa Sarjangal
Types of incident
  • Arrest
  • Execution
  • Ground Attack
  • Hand Grenade
  • Targeted Killing
Conflict parties
  • Taliban
Alleged types of crimes
  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Cruel treatment
  • War crime: Denying a fair trial
  • War crime: Denying quarter
  • War crime: Inhuman treatment
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Torture
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
  • Act of genocide: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
  • Act of genocide: Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
  • Act of genocide: Killing
  • Crime against humanity: Murder
  • Crime against humanity: Persecution
  • Crime against humanity: Torture
Regime in place
  • Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
Summary of incident

Heavily armed Taliban militants attacked a residential house on June 26, 2022. Four individuals were detained and then summarily executed. Taliban officials said that the night raid was conducted to locate a former Taliban security official in the Lal wa Sarjangal region of Ghor Province. At least one of the executed individuals displayed evidence of torture on their body. Two further fatalities included a woman and a 12-year-old girl who were killed during the raid.

Source_1

AHRDO Archive

[Amnesty International](https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/afghanistan-taliban-torture-and-execute-hazaras-in-targeted-attack-new-investigation/]

Source_2

Shafaqna

Etilaatroz

No of victims involved
7