Anti-Government Elements Abduct and Execute Two Drivers in Kunar (2017)
Incident- Date
- Feb 19, 2017
- Year of incident
- 2017
- Province of incident
- Kunar: Bar Kunar
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 35.0890075288157
Longitude: 71.3666202016488
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Bar Kunar
- Town/Village
- Bar Kunar district, Kunar province
- Types of incident
- Abduction
- Execution
- Hostage taking
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Khost Protection Forces (KPF)
- Local Militia
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilian objects
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Enforced disappearance
- Other Crimes : Inhuman treatment
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Summary execution
- Other Crimes : Taking hostages
- Other Crimes : Unlawful confinement
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On February 19, 2017, anti-government elements abducted two local drivers from a main road in Bar Kunar district, believing them to be government spies. The victims were held captive for over two months. On May 1, 2017, the captors shot both men dead and left their corpses in the area where they had been initially abducted.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 2
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