Kerala Massacre

Document
Incident date
20/04/1979
Year of Incident
1979
Province of incident
Kunar: Asadabad
Town Village
Kerala
Types of Incident
  • Execution
Conflict Parties
  • People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan - Khalq (PDPA-K)
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • Crime against humanity: Extermination
Perpetrators
  • Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
Summary

On April 20, 1979, in the town of Kerala in eastern Afghanistan, some 20 Soviet advisers led Afghan troops in the massacre of an estimated 1,000 or more unarmed people who had been rounded up for supporting the anti-government Mujahideen resistance.

Sources

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/02/06/the-kerala-massacre/a89702ef-72e2-4531-a886-5d135b06c34f/

No of victims involved
1000