Taliban summarily executed 16 civilians

Document
Date
۱۲ مرداد ۱۳۷۸
Year of Incident
1999
Province of incident
Kabul: Qarabagh
Geolocation (province level)

Latitude: 33.4264928883052

Longitude: 68.4184689302133

Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
Qarabagh
Town Village
Allah Ram
Types of Incident
  • Arrest
  • Execution
Conflict Parties
  • Hizb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (HWIA)
  • Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (JIA)
  • Junbish-e Milli Islami Afghanistan (JMIA)
  • Taliban
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Murder
  • Crime against humanity: Murder
Perpetrators
  • Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA)
Summary

At 11 a.m. on August 3, 1999, a party of Taliban entered the village of Allah Ram of Qarabagh District. The population of the village was intact. They rounded up sixteen men, tied them up and took them to a dried up river bed close to the village. There a party of Taliban summarily executed all sixteen men, by Kalashnikov fire.

Sources

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

No of victims involved
16