On April 18, 2015, four Hazara civilians who were traveling from the Malistan District to the Ajristan District in Ghazni, now part of Daikundi Province, to purchase livestock were abducted by Taliban fighters. Initially, the Taliban demanded that the government release their fighters who were detained and imprisoned by the Ghazni Department of Intelligence. After the government did not comply with their demands, the captives were subjected to several days of severe torture and subsequently beheaded by their captors.
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Date
Jun 18, 2015
Year of Incident
2015
Province of incident
Ghazni: Ajristan
Geolocation (province level)
Latitude: 33.8197130073145
Longitude: 67.2145851247553
Geolocation (province level) (linkedDocument)
Ajristan
Town Village
Ajristan
Types of Incident
Abduction
Decapitate
Execution
Targeted Killing
Conflict Parties
Afghan Local Police (ALP)
Afghan National Army (ANA)
Afghan National Civil Order Forces (ANCOF)
Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF)
Afghan National Police (ANP)
Afghan Special Forces (ASF)
CIA backed Afghan Military Strike Force
Haqqani Network (HN)
ISIL-KP
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (IRA)
National Directorate of Security (NDS)
Office of National Security Council (ONSC)
Pro-government militia
Taliban
Alleged crimes in the incident
War crime: Attacking civilian objects
War crime: Attacking civilians
War crime: Cruel treatment
War crime: Denying quarter
War crime: Murder
War crime: Starvation
War crime: Taking hostages
War crime: Torture
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: Killing
Crime against humanity: Extermination
Crime against humanity: Murder
Crime against humanity: Other inhumane acts
Crime against humanity: Persecution
Crime against humanity: Torture
Perpetrators
Republic of Afghanistan
Summary
On April 18, 2015, four Hazara civilians who were traveling from the Malistan District to the Ajristan District in Ghazni, now part of Daikundi Province, to purchase livestock were abducted by Taliban fighters. Initially, the Taliban demanded that the government release their fighters who were detained and imprisoned by the Ghazni Department of Intelligence. After the government did not comply with their demands, the captives were subjected to several days of severe torture and subsequently beheaded by their captors.