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Primarily ethnic Hazaras. Some other Northern Alliance supporters were targeted as well. The 1998 Mazar-i-Sharif massacre took place in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998. At least 2,000 victims were murdered by the Taliban, with Human Rights Watch estimating that the actual number of victims may be much higher.
8 August 1998: 1400 soldiers from the Hazara army, and additional 8000+ noncombatants killed. The Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif were a part of the Afghan Civil War and took place in 1997 and 1998 between the forces of Abdul Malik Pahlawan and his Hazara allies, Junbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan, and the Taliban.
Massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia. (Volhynian slaughter) 1943–1944. Volhynia. Ukrainian Insurgent Army. about 91,000 (±15,000) mostly Polish people. by far most of the victimes were Poles, but also Ukrainians and people of ethnic minorities were killed. Koniuchy massacre. 29 January 1944.
The Taliban randomly shot anti-aircraft weapons at civilians into the middle of the city; [43] causing drivers to swerve out of control and run people over. [43] Human rights organizations reported that the dead were lying on the streets for weeks before the Taliban allowed their burial due to stench and fear of epidemics. [50]
Arab immigration to Brazil started in the 1890s as Lebanese and Syrian people fled the political and economic instability caused by the collapse of the Ottoman Empire; the majority were Christian but there were also many Muslims. Immigration peaked around World War II. [10] Arab immigrants were among the largest non-European immigrant groups to ...
A sally port used in the transfer of internees to and from the 12-man cells during the nine years that the "temporary" facility was in use.. In 2005, The New York Times obtained a 2,000-page United States Army investigatory report concerning the homicides of two unarmed civilian Afghan prisoners by U.S. military personnel in December 2002 at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility (also Bagram ...
Armed conflicts between Poland (including the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Civitas Schinesghe ("Duchy of Poland")) and Russia (including the Soviet Union and Kievan Rus') include: Polish or Polish–Lithuanian victory - 25. Russian, Soviet, Muscovite, Ruthenian, or Kievan Rus' victory - 24. Another result* - 2.
Atrocities. Attacks on Poles during the massacres in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia were marked with extreme sadism and brutality. Rape, torture and mutilation were commonplace, with entire villages wiped out as a result. Poles were burned alive, flayed, impaled, crucified, disembowelled, dismembered and beheaded.