The Massacre in Mazar-i Sharif

Document
Date
AP ۱۳۷۷ زمری ۱۷
Year of Incident
1998
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-i Sharif
Types of Incident
  • Abduction
  • Arrest
  • Clash
  • Complex attack
  • Enforced disappearance
  • Execution
  • forced marriage
  • Ground attack
  • Hand grenade
  • Heavy Weapon attack
  • Light Weapon Attack
  • Mortar shell
  • Targeted Killing
  • Vehicle-borne Attack
Conflict Parties
  • Harakat-e Islami Afghanistan (HIA)
  • Hizb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG)
  • Hizb-e Jabhe Milli Nejat Afghanistan (HJMNA)
  • Hizb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (HWIA)
  • Jamiat-e Islami Afghanistan (JIA)
  • Junbish-e Milli Islami Afghanistan (JMIA)
  • Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (MPVPV)
  • Taliban
Alleged crimes in the incident
  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Cruel treatment
  • War crime: Denying a fair trial
  • War crime: Denying quarter
  • War crime: Destruction and appropriation of property
  • War crime: Displacing civilians
  • War crime: Enforced prostitution
  • War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
  • War crime: Forced pregnancy
  • War crime: Inhuman treatment
  • War crime: Manifest disproportionality
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Mutilation
  • War crime: Outrages upon personal dignity
  • War crime: Pillaging
  • War crime: Rape
  • War crime: Sexual slavery
  • War crime: Sexual violence
  • War crime: Starvation
  • War crime: Taking hostages
  • War crime: Torture
  • War crime: Treacherously killing or wounding
  • War crime: Unlawful confinement
  • 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: Forcibly transferring children
  • Act of genocide: Imposing measures intended to prevent births
  • Act of genocide: Killing
  • Crime against humanity: Enforced disappearance
  • Crime against humanity: Enslavement
  • Crime against humanity: Extermination
  • Crime against humanity: Murder
  • Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
  • Crime against humanity: Persecution
  • Crime against humanity: Rape
  • Crime against humanity: Sexual slavery
  • Crime against humanity: Sexual violence
  • Crime against humanity: Torture
Perpetrators
  • Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA)
Summary

On August 8, 1998, Taliban forces entered the city of Mazar-i Sharif. Over the next week, Taliban troops summarily executed at least 2000 people, most of them non-combatants.

Sources

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

No of victims involved
2000