Suicide Attack in Malik-Ashgar Square Targeted Hazara Protesters (2018)
Incident- Date
- Nov 12, 2018
- Year of incident
- 2018
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Malik Asghar Sqaure
- Types of incident
- Explosion
- Suicide Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Office of National Security Council (ONSC)
- Taliban
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- 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 November 12, 2018, a suicide attack occurred in Malik-Ashgar Square, Kabul, specifically targeting Hazara protesters who had demonstrated against the government’s negligence of the Taliban’s deadly attack on Urozgan, Malistan, and Jaghuri. Tragically, this attack resulted in the loss of six lives and left 22 others injured. The Islamic State of Iraq and Levant-Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) claimed responsibility for the incident, asserting that their target was the Hazara community.
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- No of victims involved
- 6
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