Four members of a family killed by the Taliban in Badakhshan

Incident
Date
۱ تیر ۱۳۹۸
Year of incident
2019
Province of incident
Badakhshan: Jurm
District geolocation of incident

Latitude: 36.8728323516953

Longitude: 70.8376097627249

District geolocation of incident (linked Incident)
Jurm
Town/Village
Dara-e-Khostak
Types of incident
  • Small arms Fires
Conflict parties
  • Taliban
Alleged types of crimes
  • War crime: Wilful killing
Summary of incident

The Taliban killed four male members of a family, an act of vengeance for the killing of two Taliban commanders by unknown gunmen. The bodies of the four civilians were not handed over to their family.

Source_1

Afghan War Casualty Report: June 21-27, Fahim Abed, New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report.html