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Key Human Rights Watch Documents on Mazar-i Sharif
Other Related Documents
- Statement by Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the
Secretary-General on Afghanistan
New York, 10 November 2001
- U.S. Pressure Needed to Prevent Abuses in Mazar-i Sharif
(New York, October 23, 2001)
-- In a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, Human Rights Watch urged the United States to use its influence with the United Front (Northern Alliance) in Afghanistan to ensure that their forces do not engage in reprisal killings, indiscriminate shelling, and other serious violations of international humanitarian law.
- Fueling Aghanistan's War
Press Backgrounder, December 15, 2000
August 1998:
After capturing Mazar-i Sharif on August 8, Taliban troops killed scores of civilians in indiscriminate attacks, shooting noncombatants and suspected combatants in residential areas, city streets, and markets. In the days that followed, Taliban forces carried out a systematic search for male members of the ethnic Hazara, Tajik, and Uzbek communities. Scores and perhaps hundreds of Hazara men and boys were summarily executed, while thousands of men from various ethnic communities were detained first in the city jail and then transported to other cities. Altogether, at least 2,000 civilians may have been deliberately killed in the city. Many others were killed in aerial bombardments and rocket attacks as they fled south of the city. There were reports that women and girls, particularly in certain Hazara neighborhoods, were raped and abducted during the Taliban takeover.
- What Is the United Front/Northern Alliance?
Military Assistance to the Afghan Opposition
Human Rights Watch Backgrounder
October 2001
- Beware of Unsavory Afghan Allies
Editorial Published in the International Herald Tribune October 10, 2001
- HUMANITY DENIED
Systematic Violations of Women's Rights in Afghanistan
Human Rights Watch Report, October 2001
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