Khost Protection Force conducted a search operation against the Taliban and during the operation killed killed five civilian
Incident- Date
- Mar 14, 2019
- Year of incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Paktia: Zurmat
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.4359885654695
Longitude: 69.0310478013903
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Zurmat
- Town/Village
- Haibat Khail
- Types of incident
- Small Arms Fires
- Conflict parties
- Khost Protection Forces (KPF)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- Summary of incident
Khost Protection Force, with air support from international forces, conducted a search operation against the Taliban. During the operation, Khost Protection Force killed five civilian men from one family - a father, his three sons, and his nephew. The Khost Protection Force took them in front of their house and killed them.
- Source_1
United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, 2019 Report, pg. 64, available at https://unama.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/afghanistan_protection_of_civilians_annual_report_2019_-_22_february.pdf