Taliban Kidnapping and Release of Seventeen Hazara Civilians in Sangcharak District (2016)
Document- Date
- ۱۳ خرداد ۱۳۹۵
- Year of Incident
- 2016
- Province of incident
- Sare Pol: Sangcharak
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.3373524837163
Longitude: 66.4348622192195
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Sangcharak
- Town Village
- Sangcharak District, Sare Pol
- Types of Incident
- Abduction
- Hostage taking
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- Other
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Unknown
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilian objects
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Persecution
- Unknown: Taking hostages
- Unknown: Unlawful confinement
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On June 2, 2016, gunmen kidnapped 17 members of the Shi'ite Hazara minority after pulling them out of their vehicles in Sancharak district. The civilians were taken to an area controlled by the Taliban. The following day, on June 3, the Taliban released all 17 abducted Hazaras.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 17
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