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Kabal Shah

is a victim/survivor of a/an

  • Vehicle-borne Suicide Attack
  • In many incidents and cases related to the war in Afghanistan, some information might be missing due to the volatile nature of the conflict or the difficulty in gathering comprehensive information
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Additional information

  • Date of birth:

    Nov 10, 1968

  • Village/Town of birth:

    Unknown

  • Province of birth:

    Kapisa: Nijrab

  • Gender:

    Male

  • Ethnicity:

    Tajik

  • Education:

    Illiterate

  • Date of the main incident:

    March 22, 1989

  • Place of the main incident:

    Kabul City

  • Related incident:

Incident description

On August 7, 2015, an attack occurred in the Shah Shahid area of Kabul. Many houses and shops were destroyed in the attack. At least 15 people died and more than 400 others were injured.

Source

AHRDO Archive BBC

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

Alleged type of crimes

  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Wilful killing

Kabal Shah

Incident geolocation

  • Province:

  • Latitude:

    34.5168788437339

  • Longitude:

    69.1499999975304

Latitude: 34.5168788437339

Longitude: 69.1499999975304

Witness/Survivor Statement

The Curse of Incidents Always Hit the Poor

In the dark midnight, all were sleeping. That night when the explosion took place, I imagined our home upside down. Those scenes of horror and darkness still haunt my dreams. In the dark, I tried to move and look for my family members to see who was fine and who was injured, but I couldn’t get up and move. Then I noticed that my leg felt wet. I was injured by broken glass from my house. I had lost one leg in 1989 in mine explosion. This time, my other leg was injured.

All my family were terrified. The floor was covered with broken glass. We could not see anything in the dark. After the first incident when I lost my leg, my family behaved and liked me like before. But it was painful for me because I sometimes feel that I can’t do enough with my disability. When I was injured the first time, I was treated at the government hospital. We were also provided with other assistance. After I got out of the hospital, were provided with monthly coupons along with 4000 Afghanis in cash. But the assistance our current government provides is not sufficient. I ask the government to bring peace and not forget war victims. We were disabled in this land and we are its citizens. Sometimes I hear very unfair words. They say that people like me were culprits or perpetrators and that's why we were disabled. When I hear these words, it makes me sad and my heart breaks.