The Sayyad massacre

Document
Date
۷ فروردین ۱۳۷۹
Year of Incident
2000
Province of incident
Sare Pol: Gosfandi
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 36.2215966088889

Longitude: 65.9277670687403

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Gosfandi
Sayyad
Sangcharak
Balkhab
Town Village
Jar-e-Shorab, Jar-e-Bator, Sayyad village and Bashom Aikashom
Types of Incident
  • Arrest
  • Complex attack
  • Enforced disappearance
  • Execution
  • Ground attack
Conflict Parties
  • 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: Inhuman treatment
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Sexual violence
  • War crime: Taking hostages
  • War crime: Torture
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
  • Crime against humanity: Murder
  • Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
  • Crime against humanity: Persecution
  • Crime against humanity: Torture
Perpetrators
  • Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA)
Summary

Residents of Sayyad reported that on March 26, 2000, during the Taliban clean-up operation in Gosfandi, the Taliban summarily executed twenty-two people from Sayyad, in four different locations, Jar-e-Shorab, Jar-e-Bator, Sayyad village and Bashom Aikashom. The names of victims given by the Sayyad residents include men and women aged from 14 to 65.

Sources

https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/casting-shadows-war-crimes-and-crimes-against-humanity-1978-2001

No of victims involved
22