Our voices

Victims in our database

Afghanistan Memory Home adopts a victim-centered approach, ensuring that the database design and content are shaped around the needs, priorities, and perspectives of those who have endured violence. This approach ensures that the voices of the victims and survivors take center stage, allowing them to directly contribute their narratives. By placing victims in control of their own stories, we aim to foster empowerment, authenticity, and a genuine representation of their experiences.

Victims in this database include individuals who lost their lives due to the impacts of the war in Afghanistan. Their profiles and associated data are included in the database to contribute to a broader understanding of the devastating consequences of war. The information plays a crucial role as a valuable resource for research, helps raise awareness about the human cost of conflict, and supports advocacy efforts aimed at preventing future tragedies.

It also includes individuals who have survived the war or have directly witnessed its atrocities. These survivors are victims of the war themselves. Their inclusion in the database highlights the significance of their firsthand experiences, which are essential in understanding the intricate aftermath of war. Moreover, survivors play a crucial role by providing vital details about specific incidents and the people affected, including their friends and family members. These details hold immense importance for accountability, memorialization, and the preservation of historical records.

The Human Cost Map

Incidents' Geographical Distribution

Memory Boxes

In 2011, AHRDO launched a memorialization project to salvage, protect and share memories and the stories of Afghan war victims. The concept of memorialization was objectified through the physical construction of Memory Boxes.

Through facilitated workshops, the survivors — family members and relatives of the war victims — constructed metal and wooden boxes with technical assistance of AHRDO, collected personal objects and stories of the war victims and deposited them in the Memory Boxes.

This memorialization work, over the course of one decade, during which thousands of survivors took part, has led to the construction of 700 Memory Boxes with more than 15000 personal objects and stories.

Sakhidad Hedayat

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Qudrartullah

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Sultan Ahmad Sohrab

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Kawsar Qubadian

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Hawagul

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Ramazan and Abdul Hamid

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