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Sharifullah

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Ground Attack
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Additional information

  • Date of birth:

    1967

  • Village/Town of birth:

    Qizalabad قزل آباد

  • Province of birth:

    Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif

  • Gender:

    Male

  • Ethnicity:

    Hazara

  • Education:

    Unknown

  • Date of the main incident:

    August 07, 1997

  • Place of the main incident:

    Qizalabad

  • Related incident:

Incident description

On August 7, 1998, following a renewed conflict with the Northern Front, Taliban forces entered Mazar-e-Sharif in Balkh Province. In the initial days, they detained and executed thousands of civilians, primarily Hazaras. Within the first 3 days, the Taliban forces declared a general massacre targeting the city's Shia population. According to witnesses, the scale of the violence left bodies strewn across the streets. It took days to remove all the bodies. Sharifullah was among the civilian casualties of the Taliban's massacre.

Source

AHRDO Archive

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: Land, farms damaged, and orchards damaged or overtaken
  • Materials costs: Livestock killed or dispossessed
  • Materials costs: Money taken away in the form of looting, ransom, forced feeding
  • Materials costs: Property destroyed, damaged, occupied
  • Materials costs: Property, land and livestock abandoned due to fear of getting killed

Alleged type of crimes

  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Torture
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • 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: Forcibly transferring children
  • Act of genocide: Imposing measures intended to prevent births
  • Act of genocide: Killing

Sharifullah

Incident geolocation

  • Province:

    Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif

  • Latitude:

    36.6940040349316

  • Longitude:

    67.1132463131472

Latitude: 36.6940040349316

Longitude: 67.1132463131472

Witness/Survivor Statement

No statement