Kerala Massacre
Incident- Incident date
- 20/04/1979
- Year of incident
- 1979
- Province of incident
- Kunar: Asadabad
- Town/Village
- Kerala
- Types of incident
- Execution
- Conflict parties
- People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan - Khalq (PDPA-K)
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- Crime against humanity: Extermination
- Regime in place
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On April 20, 1979, in the town of Kerala in eastern Afghanistan, some 20 Soviet advisers led Afghan troops in the massacre of an estimated 1,000 or more unarmed people who had been rounded up for supporting the anti-government Mujahideen resistance.
- Source_1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/02/06/the-kerala-massacre/a89702ef-72e2-4531-a886-5d135b06c34f/
- No of victims involved
- 1000
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