[Title], was born in [year of birth], in [village/town if available], [province]. [Title] was a/an [profession] and belonged to the [etnicity] community. [Title] was killed on [date of incident] in [place of incident], [province of incident].

Addtional information

  • Education

    Lawyer and AUAF Lecturor

  • Marital Status

  • Province of birth

    Unknown

  • Village of birth

  • Perpetrator Regime

  • Conflict Parties

  • Type of incident

Incident description

On August 24, 2016, suspected Taliban attackers stormed the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul using a car bomb and automatic weapons. The assault resulted in the deaths of sixteen people, including eight university students, one university policeman, and three security guards. Additionally, fifty to fifty-three individuals were injured, some critically. Afghan Special Forces killed three of the attackers. This incident marked the first direct attack on the university, although two professors had been kidnapped just outside the campus a few weeks earlier. Both Taliban and ISIL-KP were suspected though no group or individual claimed the responsibility for the attack.

Alleged type of harm

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  • Psychological costs: Experienced scenes of clashes and violence
  • Psychological costs: Faces traumas and anxiety
  • Psychological costs: Have been otherwise mentally, emotionally and psychologically harmed and affected
  • Psychological costs: Seen people killed and injured or tortured
  • Human costs: Injured
  • Human costs: Killed
  • Materials costs: Property destroyed, damaged, occupied

Alleged type of crimes

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  • War crime: Attacking civilian objects
  • War crime: Attacking civilians
  • War crime: Denying quarter
  • War crime: Excessive incidental death, injury, or damage
  • War crime: Inhuman treatment
  • War crime: Murder
  • War crime: Taking hostages
  • War crime: Use of mines against civilians
  • War crime: Wilful killing
  • War crime: Wilfully causing great suffering

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Incident geolocation

  • Province

    Kabul: Kabul City

  • Latitude

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  • Longitude

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Witness/Survivor Statement