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Sayed Sarwar

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Ground Attack
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Addtional information

  • Date of birth:

    Unknown

  • Village/Town of birth:

    Yakawlang

  • Province of birth:

    Bamyan: Bamyan

  • Gender:

    Male

  • Ethnicity:

    Sadat

  • Education:

    Unknown

  • Date of the main incident:

    January 08, 2001

  • Place of the main incident:

    Yakawlang

  • Related incident:

Incident description

The Taliban slaughtered at least 300 Sayyid and Hazara people during an attack on the Yakawlang District of Bamiyan Province on January 7, 2001. Witness accounts state that once the Taliban troops retook Yakawlang on January 7, they started to arrest and ruthlessly kill individuals. In late December 2000, they had lost Yakawlang to Hezb-e Wahdat, an anti-Taliban party that claimed to be supported by the Hazara minority. Additionally, witnesses reported to Amnesty International that Hezb-e Wahdat soldiers executed at least four people in broad daylight during the few days they occupied Yakawlang in late December 2000.

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: Attacking humanitarian personnel and objects
  • War crime: Wilful killing

Sayed Sarwar

Incident geolocation

  • Province:

    Bamyan: Bamyan

  • Latitude:

    34.7470944036382

  • Longitude:

    66.9444940613056

Latitude: 34.7470944036382

Longitude: 66.9444940613056

Witness/Survivor Statement

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