KPF Executed Peace Council Member and Five Family Members in Paktia (2018)
Document- Date
- ۹ دی ۱۳۹۷
- Year of Incident
- 2018
- Province of incident
- Paktia: Zurmat
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 33.4359885654695
Longitude: 69.0310478013903
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Zurmat
- Town Village
- Zurmat district, Paktia province
- Types of Incident
- Complex attack
- Execution
- Extrad-Judicial Killing
- Ground attack
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Afghan National Army (ANA)
- Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
- Afghan National Police (ANP)
- Khost Protection Forces (KPF)
- National Directorate of Security (NDS)
- Taliban
- Taliban Militants
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- Unknown: Attacking civilians
- Unknown: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Unknown: Crimes against persons requiring particular protection
- Unknown: Killing
- Unknown: Murder
- Unknown: Persecution
- Unknown: Summary execution
- Perpetrators
- Republic of Afghanistan
- Summary
On December 30, 2018, Khost Protection Forces entered the home of a provincial peace council member in Zurmat district and systematically executed him and five male members of his family, killing them one after another. This incident represents a mass killing of a family targeted because of the peace council member's position, demonstrating the extreme violence employed by this paramilitary force against civilians.
- Sources
AHRDO Incident Report
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 6
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