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Sayed Reza

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Ground Attack
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Addtional information

  • Date of birth:

  • Village/Town of birth:

    Yakawlang

  • Province of birth:

    Bamyan: Bamyan

  • Gender:

    Male

  • Ethnicity:

    Sadat

  • Education:

    • Date of the main incident:

      January 08, 2001

    • Place of the main incident:

      Yakawlang

    • Related incident:

    Incident description

    On January 7, 2001, the Taliban attacked the Yakawlang District of Bamiyan Province and massacred hundreds of Hazara civilians. Many of those who managed to escape and take refuge on the mountains froze to death. On January 8, Taliban members began a house-to-house search across the district. The massacre of Hazaras continued through the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th of January. At least 300 Hazaras were executed by the Taliban.

    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: Destroying or seizing the enemy’s property
    • War crime: Wilful killing

    Sayed Reza

    Incident geolocation

    • Province:

      Bamyan: Bamyan

    • Latitude:

      34.7470944036382

    • Longitude:

      66.9444940613056

    Latitude: 34.7470944036382

    Longitude: 66.9444940613056

    Witness/Survivor Statement