Mass Detention and Extortion of Hazara Residents in Jalrez District Over Missing Livestock Dispute (2023)
Incident- Dates of incident
- May 8, 2023 ~ Sep 1, 2023
- Year of incident
- 2023
- Province of incident
- Maidan Wardak: Jalrez
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 34.6294382770326
Longitude: 68.658089382081
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Jalrez
- Town/Village
- Sarcheshma and Siah Khak areas, Jalrez District, Maidan Wardak Province
- Types of incident
- Arbitrary Detention
- Arrest
- Detention
- Hostage taking
- Torture
- Conflict parties
- Taliban General Directorate of Intelligence (GDI)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Kochies (Nomds)
- Local Militia
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Taliban Security (Police) Command
- Alleged types of crimes
- Other Crimes : Extortion
- Other Crimes : Persecution
- Other Crimes : Taking hostages
- Other Crimes : Torture
- Other Crimes : Unlawful confinement
- Other Crimes : Wilfully causing great suffering
- Regime in place
- Second Taliban Regime of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
Key Details:
Time Period: May 8 to June 23, 2023
Location: Sarcheshma and Siah Khak areas, Jalrez District, Maidan Wardak Province
Number of Detainees: At least 32
Ethnicity of Detainees: Predominantly Hazara
Alleged Reason: Complaint by Pashtun Kuchi nomads over 420 missing sheep from 2019
Resolution Date: September 1, 2023
Imposed Fine: 1,750,000 Afghanis on 23 local residents
Between May 8 and June 23, 2023, Taliban forces detained and imprisoned at least 32 residents, primarily of Hazara ethnicity, from the Sarcheshma and Siah Khak areas of Jalrez District in Maidan Wardak Province. The Taliban cited a complaint from Pashtun Kuchi nomads as the reason for these detentions, relating to 420 sheep allegedly lost in the area in 2019. According to reports, the livestock was allegedly appropriated at the time by Abdul Ghani Alipour, an anti-Taliban military commander who is currently believed to be outside Afghanistan. However, the Kuchi nomads argued that since the animals were lost in this area, the local people should be held responsible for compensation. On September 1, 2023, the Taliban's Commission for Resolving Kuchi and Settler Disputes in Maidan Wardak issued a decision. They ordered 23 residents of the Sarcheshma area to pay 1,750,000 Afghanis (Afghanistan currency) as compensation to the Kuchi nomads.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
- No of victims involved
- 32
