Bombing at the Tabyan Cultural Center, Balkh (2023)
Document- Date
- ۲۰ اسفند ۱۴۰۱
- Year of Incident
- 2023
- Province of incident
- Balkh: Mazar-e Sharif
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 36.6940040349316
Longitude: 67.1132463131472
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Mazar-e Sharif
- Town Village
- Mazar-e-Sharif
- Types of Incident
- Anti-Personnel Mine
- Explosion
- Improvised Explosive Device (IED)
- Remote-controlled IED (RC-IED)
- Targeted Killing
- Conflict Parties
- Haqqani Network (HN)
- ISIL-KP
- Taliban
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- War crime: Attacking civilian objects
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- War crime: Cruel treatment
- War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
- War crime: Murder
- War crime: Use of mines against civilians
- War crime: Wilful killing
- War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering
- Act of genocide: Causing serious bodily or mental harm
- Act of genocide: Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction
- Act of genocide: Killing
- Crime against humanity: Extermination
- Crime against humanity: Murder
- Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
- Crime against humanity: Persecution
- Perpetrators
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA)
- Summary
On 11 March 2023, an explosive device detonated inside the Tabyan Center, in Mazar-e-Sharif. The blast resulted in the deaths of 2 journalists and injuries to another 18 people. All the victims were civilians, primarily belonging to the Hazara ethnic group. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant-Khorasan Province (ISIL-KP) claimed responsibility for the attack.
- Sources
- Source_2
- No of victims involved
- 2
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