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DiscriminationEnmity runs deep between Taliban, Shiites
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...
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GenocideThe Truth About Talibans
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...
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DiscriminationAfghanistan: Massacre in Yakaolang
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...
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Massacres in Yakaolang
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...
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GenocideTaleban accused of mass killing
Courtesy Xbox 360 Videos Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that about 170 men and boys were killed by Taleban troops in central Afghanistan. BBC
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Afghanistan: summary execution of civilians in Yakaolang
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...
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GenocideHow The Taliban Slaughtered 8000 people in Mazar-e-Sharif
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...
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GenocideEthnic Massacre by Taliban in Mazar-i-Sharif
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...
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GenocideImmediate action needed to halt further massacres
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...
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Afghanistan: The truth must be exposed
News Service 159/98 AI INDEX: ASA 11/06/98 17 AUGUST 1998 The Taleban’s refusal to allow independent monitoring of the situation in the northern areas of Afghanistan — following the fall of Mazar-e Sharif and several...
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