Massacres in Yakawlang villages in Bamian

Yakaolang villages, Bamyan province, Afghanistan

Taliban forces attacked Yakaolang district’s different villages and massacred over 300 unarmed men and several civilian women and children for several days. The victims were either summarily executed or deliberately killed. Eyewitnesses said: "Some people in Kata Khana ran to the mosque for shelter thinking the Taliban would respect the mosque's sanctity, but they were wrong!" They said they saw Taliban guards deliberately firing two rockets at the mosque where some 73 women, children, and older men had taken shelter. The building collapsed on them, but the Taliban guards would not allow anyone to go to their rescue for three days, by which time all those in the mosque had died except for two small children. Source: Amnesty International.

Source: Amnesty International - www.amnesty.org