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Abdul Walid

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Abduction
  • Clash
  • Complex Attack
  • Detention
  • Explosion
  • Heavy Weapon Attack
  • Hostage taking
  • Light Weapon Attack
  • Murder
  • Suicide Attack
  • Targeted Killing
  • Vehicle-borne Attack
  • Vehicle-borne Suicide Attack
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Additional information

  • Date of birth:

    26 years old

  • Village/Town of birth:

    • Province of birth:

    • Gender:

      Male

    • Ethnicity:

      Unknown

    • Education:

      Undergraduate

    • Date of the main incident:

      August, 24 2016

    • Place of the main incident:

      American University of Afghanistan, PD 6, Kabul.

    • Related incident:

    Incident description

    On August 24, 2016, suspected Taliban attackers stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul using a car bomb and automatic weapons. The assault resulted in the deaths of sixteen people, including eight university students, one university policeman, and three security guards. Additionally, fifty to fifty-three individuals were injured, some critically. Afghan Special Forces killed three of the attackers. This incident marked the first direct attack on the university, although two professors had been kidnapped just outside the campus a few weeks earlier. Both Taliban and ISIL-KP were suspected though no group or individual claimed the responsibility for the attack.

    Source

    AHRDO Archive

    The Friends of the American University of Afghanistan

    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: Attacking humanitarian personnel and objects
    • War crime: Denying quarter
    • War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
    • War crime: Inhuman treatment
    • War crime: Murder
    • War crime: Taking hostages
    • War crime: Use of mines against civilians
    • War crime: Wilful killing
    • War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering

    Abdul Walid

    Incident geolocation

    • Province:

      Kabul: Kabul

    • Latitude:

      34.5168788437339

    • Longitude:

      69.1499999975304

    Latitude: 34.5168788437339

    Longitude: 69.1499999975304

    Witness/Survivor Statement

    Abdul Walid, was 26 and had just begun studying Business Administration at AUAF. During the day, Walid was the Director of Afghanistan Libre, an NGO that focuses primarily on education. According to a tribute on the ACBAR website, “Walid had been working for Afghanistan Libre for more than 10 years. He had met the founder, Mrs. Shekeba Hashemi as a young adult and committed his life entirely to education, let it be women’s education, young girls’ or his own.”