By Patrick Cockburn, Monday, 8 April 2002 United Nations investigators found evidence yesterday of three mass graves near the central Afghan city of Bamiyan, believed to contain ethnic Hazaras killed by the Taliban in their...
By JAMES RUPERT, Newsday YAKAOLANG, Afghanistan — The white-bearded elders of Bedmushkin tremble when they recall Jan 8. That was the day that Taliban fighters came to the village after having won a difficult battle...
From Yakaolang where many people were massacred by Taliban in Jan 2001 Taliban brutally killed many people because they belong to Hazara ethnic minority. Taliban brutally killed many people because they belong to Hazara ethnic...
Media Advisory 28 March 2001 AI Index ASA 11/007/2001 – News Service Nr. 56 Afghanistan: Massacre in Yakaolang Amnesty International today issued a report on January’s massacre of over 300 unarmed men and a number...
Amnesty International has now obtained detailed information which corroborates earlier reports of the massacre of civilians in Yakaolang in the central province of Bamiyan. According to eyewitness reports, Taleban forces began to arrest people and...
23 January 2001 AI Index AFA 11/001/2001 – News Service Nr. 013 Afghanistan: summary execution of civilians in Yakaolang Amnesty International today condemned the summary execution of scores of Afgan civilians by Taleban forces after...
No mercy: Hazara men, women and children were murdered in their homes as Taliban gunmen took over Mazar-e-Sharif Michael Sheridan, Nov 01,1998 THE first detailed eyewitness accounts of the massacre of up to 8,000 people...
By DEXTER FILKINS | Los Angeles Times PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Refugees fleeing an Afghanistan city recently conquered by the Taliban say that troops with the ultra-orthodox religious army slaughtered thousands of civilians when they took the town last...
Amnesty International 11 September 1998 Tens of thousands of ethnic Hazara civilians in the Afghan province of Bamyan are at risk of deliberate and arbitrary killings by advancing Taleban forces, Amnesty International warned today. The...