Ghulam Haidar Amiri

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Explosion
  • Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
  • Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
  • Suicide Attack
  • Targeted Killing
  • Vehicle-borne Attack
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Additional information

  • Date of birth:

  • Village/Town of birth:

    • Province of birth:

      Confidential: Unknown

    • Gender:

      Male

    • Ethnicity:

      Hazara

    • Education:

      • Date of the main incident:

        September 5, 2018

      • Place of the main incident:

        PD 6, Kabul, Dasht-e-Barchi

      Incident description

      On September 5, 2018, a horrific twin suicide bombing struck the Maiwand Wrestling Club in Dasht-e-Barchi, a predominantly Hazara neighborhood in western Kabul, Afghanistan. The first blast ripped through the wrestling club in the early evening, followed by a second explosion targeting first responders and civilians who had gathered to assist the victims. This secondary attack caused even greater casualties. The attacks resulted in the deaths of at least 30 civilians, including two journalists, Samim Framarz and Ramiz Ahmadi. It injured over 103 others. The Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) claimed responsibility for the bombings, stating they targeted Shia-Hazaras.

      Source

      Alleged type of harm

      • Psychological costs: Experienced scenes of clashes and violence
      • Psychological costs: Faces traumas and anxiety
      • Psychological costs: Have been otherwise mentally, emotionally and psychologically harmed and affected
      • Psychological costs: Seen people killed and injured or tortured
      • Human costs: Injured
      • Human costs: Killed
      • Materials costs: Property destroyed, damaged, occupied

      Alleged type of crimes

      • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
      • War crime: Attacking civilians
      • War crime: Destruction and appropriation of property
      • War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
      • War crime: Murder
      • War crime: Treacherously killing or wounding
      • War crime: Use of mines against civilians
      • 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: Extermination
      • Crime against humanity: Murder
      • Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
      • Crime against humanity: Persecution

      Ghulam Haidar Amiri

      Incident geolocation

      • Province:

        Kabul: Kabul

      • Latitude:

        34.5168788437339

      • Longitude:

        69.1499999975304

      Witness/Survivor Statement

      No