A Kandahar Strike Force unit carried out a raid on a houe killing the owner
Document- Date
- AP ۱۳۹۸ وری ۲۱
- Year of Incident
- 2019
- Province of incident
- Kandahar: Panjwaye
- Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 31.5503884901849
Longitude: 65.4612742528685
- Geolocation (province level) (linked Document)
- Panjwaye
- Town Village
- Talokan
- Types of Incident
- Small arms Fires
- Conflict Parties
- Kandahar Strike Force
- Alleged crimes in the incident
- War crime: Attacking civilians
- Summary
A Kandahar Strike Force unit carried out a raid on the home of Mohammad Gul, the principal of the local primary school. A relative identified by the initials M.M. said that Gul was at home with his wife and daughters during the raid. M.M. believed that the forces came from the nearby Gekho base. During the raid, the soldiers locked the women in a room and then shot Gul three times, killing him. They then dragged the body out to the courtyard. Per the New York Times, five villagers were also arrested.
- Sources
Human Rights Watch Report, "They've Shot Many Like This" Abusive Night Raids by CIA-Backed Strike Forces, available at https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/10/31/theyve-shot-many/abusive-night-raids-cia-backed-afghan-strike-forces. Afghan War Casualty Report: April 5-11, Fahim Abed, New York Times, available at https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/magazine/afghan-war-casualty-report.html.