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...
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...
AI INDEX: ASA 11/07/98 News Service 171/98 3 SEPTEMBER 1998 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Afghanistan: Thousands of civilians killed following Taleban takeover of Mazar-e Sharif Taleban guards deliberately and systematically killed thousands of ethnic Hazara...