A twelve-year-old child was killed by a rocket that landed in the street.
Incident- Date
- Dec 30, 1992
- Year of incident
- 1992
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.5168788437339
Longitude: 69.1499999975304
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Kabul
- Town/Village
- Pul-i Artan
- Types of incident
- Heavy Weapon Attack
- Conflict parties
- Hizb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG)
- Alleged types of crimes
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Regime in place
- Islamic State of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
A resident of the Pul-i Hartan area described the killing of his son in a rocket attack. At about 2:00 in the afternoon on December 30, 1992, twelve-year-old Baqi was playing with other children in the street near their residence. Without warning, a rocket landed in the street and exploded. Shrapnel hit Baqi in the neck and killed him on the spot. The neighbors identified the rocket fragments belonging to a BM21 rocket. A. was aware that the area of Pul-i Artan was under bombardment from Hizb-i Islami forces stationed in the Rishkor army base.
- Source_1
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/casting-shadows-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-1978-2001
- No of victims involved
- 1
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