[Title], was born in [year of birth], in [village/town if available], [province]. [Title] was a/an [profession] and belonged to the [etnicity] community. [Title] was killed on [date of incident] in [place of incident], [province of incident].

Addtional information

  • Education

    Illiterate

  • Marital Status

    Married

  • Province of birth

    Yakawlang

  • Village of birth

    Koshkak

  • Perpetrator Regime

  • Conflict Parties

  • Type of incident

Incident description

On January 7, 2001, the Taliban attacked the Yakaolang district of Bamiyan province and massacred hundreds of Hazara civilians. Many of those who managed to escape and take refuge on the mountains froze to death. On the 8th of January, Taliban members began a house-to-house search across the district. The massacre of Hazaras continued through the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th of January. At least 300 Hazaras were either summerly executed or deliberately killed by the Taliban.

Alleged type of harm

11

  • Psychological costs: Experienced scenes of clashes and violence
  • Psychological costs: Faces traumas and anxiety
  • Psychological costs: Seen people killed and injured or tortured
  • Human costs: Injured
  • Human costs: Killed
  • Materials costs: Land, farms damaged, and orchards damaged or overtaken
  • Materials costs: Livestock killed or dispossessed
  • Materials costs: Money taken away in the form of looting, ransom, forced feeding
  • Materials costs: Property destroyed, damaged, occupied
  • Materials costs: Property, land and livestock abandoned due to fear of getting killed

Alleged type of crimes

11

  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Wilful killing

Lara's memroy box

1.1
  </section>
</div>

Incident geolocation

  • Province

    Bamyan: Yakawlang

  • Latitude

    Latitude numbers

  • Longitude

    Longitude numbers

Witness/Survivor Statement