Attack on Mazari Commemoration in Mosallae-i-Mazari, Dasht-e-Barchi (2020)
Incident- Date
- Mar 6, 2020
- Year of incident
- 2020
- Province of incident
- Kabul: Kabul
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Masallae-i-Mazari, Dasht-e-Barchi
- Types of incident
- Heavy Weapon Attack
- Mortar Shell
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan Local Police (ALP)
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- CIA backed Afghan Military Strike Force
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Resolute Support (RS)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Murder
- 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
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On March 6, 2020, a series of rockets were launched at the Masallae-i-Mazari site in Dasht-e-Barchi during the 25th-anniversary commemoration of the death of Hazara leader Abdul Ali Mazari. The attack resulted in at least 32 fatalities and 82 injuries among the attendees, who were predominantly Hazara civilians. The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant-Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) has since claimed responsibility for the incident.
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- No of victims involved
- 32
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