The Massacre in Mazar-i Sharif
Document- Date
- ۱۷ مرداد ۱۳۷۷
- Year of Incident
- 1998
- Province of incident
- Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.6940040349316
Longitude: 67.1132463131472
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Mazar-e Sharif
- Town Village
- Mazar-i Sharif
- Types of Incident
- Abduction
- Arrest
- Clash
- Complex attack
- Enforced disappearance
- Execution
- forced marriage
- Ground attack
- Hand grenade
- Heavy Weapon attack
- Light Weapon Attack
- Mortar shell
- Targeted Killing
- Vehicle-borne Attack
- Conflict Parties
- Harakat-e Islami Afghanistan (HIA)
- Hizb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG)
- Hizb-e Jabhe Milli Nejat Afghanistan (HJMNA)
- Hizb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (HWIA)
- Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (JIA)
- Junbish-e Milli Islami Afghanistan (JMIA)
- Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (MPVPV)
- Taliban
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Cruel treatment
- War crime: Denying a fair trial
- War crime: Denying quarter
- War crime: Destruction and appropriation of property
- War crime: Displacing civilians
- War crime: Enforced prostitution
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Forced pregnancy
- War crime: Inhuman treatment
- War crime: Manifest disproportionality
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Mutilation
- War crime: Outrages upon personal dignity
- War crime: Pillaging
- War crime: Rape
- War crime: Sexual slavery
- War crime: Sexual violence
- War crime: Starvation
- War crime: Taking hostages
- War crime: Torture
- War crime: Treacherously killing or wounding
- War crime: Unlawful confinement
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Act of genocide: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Act of genocide: Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
- Act of genocide: Forcibly transferring children
- Act of genocide: Imposing measures intended to prevent births
- Act of genocide: Killing
- Crime against humanity: Enforced disappearance
- Crime against humanity: Enslavement
- Crime against humanity: Extermination
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
- Crime against humanity: Persecution
- Crime against humanity: Rape
- Crime against humanity: Sexual slavery
- Crime against humanity: Sexual violence
- Crime against humanity: Torture
- Perpetrators
- Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA)
- Summary
On August 8, 1998, Taliban forces entered the city of Mazar-i Sharif. Over the next week, Taliban troops summarily executed at least 2000 people, most of them non-combatants.
- Sources
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/casting-shadows-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-1978-2001
- No of victims involved
- 2000
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