Anti-Government Elements Execute Six Civilians in Kandahar (2017)
Incident- Date
- Mar 8, 2017
- Year of incident
- 2017
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Naish
- District geolocation of incident
Latitude: 32.3973200323212
Longitude: 65.7167816162109
- District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
- Naish
- Town/Village
- Do Shana village, Naish district, Kandahar province
- Types of incident
- Execution
- Shooting
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- 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 : Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Other Crimes : Inhuman treatment
- Other Crimes : Persecution
- Other Crimes : Summary execution
- Regime in place
- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary of incident
On March 8, 2017, anti-government elements conducted house-to-house searches in Do Shana village and shot to death six civilian men aged between 19 and 32 years old. The killings were carried out based on allegations that the victims had links to the government or prior employment with Afghan national security forces. This represents a systematic execution of civilians based on suspected government associations.
- Source_1
AHRDO Incident Report
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- No of victims involved
- 6
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