KPF Executed Peace Council Member and Five Family Members in Paktia (2018)
Incident- Date
- Dec 30, 2018
- Year of incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Paktia: Zurmat
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 33.4359885654695
Longitude: 69.0310478013903
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Zurmat
- Town/Village
- Zurmat district, Paktia province
- Types of incident
- Complex Attack
- Execution
- Extrad-Judicial Killing
- Ground Attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Khost Protection Forces (KPF)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Attacking civilians
- Other Crimes : Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Other Crimes : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Killing
- Other Crimes : Murder
- Other Crimes : Persecution
- Other Crimes : Summary execution
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On December 30, 2018, Khost Protection Forces entered the home of a provincial peace council member in Zurmat district and systematically executed him and five male members of his family, killing them one after another. This incident represents a mass killing of a family targeted because of the peace council member's position, demonstrating the extreme violence employed by this paramilitary force against civilians.
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AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 6
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