Document #1019752

HRW – Human Rights Watch (Author)

The Massacre in Mazar-i Sharif

http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1998/10/31/survivors-describe-taliban

ecoi.net description:
Mazar-i Sharif: Report on the massacre in August 1998 in which Taliban militia forces captured the city of Mazar-i Sharif and killed scores of civilians in indiscriminate attacks; systematic search for male members of the ethnic Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek communities (the first day of the takeover, searches and summary executions, violence against Hazaras by governor Niazi, abductions of women, detentions of persons trying to leave, attacks on civilians fleeing Mazar)
Country:
Afghanistan
Source:
HRW – Human Rights Watch (Author)
Published:
November 1998
Original link:
http://www.hrw.org/en/news/1998/10/31/survivors-describe-taliban
Document type:
Special or Analytical Report
Language:
English
Document ID:
1019752 (former ID 93853)

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