Padkhwab-e Shana massacre

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Padkhwab-e Shana massacre
Part of
anti-communists
Attack type
mass murder, massacre
Deaths105
Perpetrators Soviet Union
Motivereprisals against civilians for anti-communist resistance members

The Padkhwab-e Shana massacre or Pad Khwab-e Shanah massacre was a

trinitrotoluene,[4] to rout them out. A military vehicle added a bag of white powder to the mix;[2] men wearing suits and masks with goggles went down the stairs at the entrance of the canal and dispersed the white powder into the water.[1] The Soviet Army then fired with machine guns at the entrances, causing massive explosions of the canals.[2] The people inside the canal were killed by being burned alive.[4] They were either hiding to avoid military drafting[3] or were afraid of Soviet attacks.[5] The Soviet soldiers laughed and cheered after the explosions.[6] According to the reports, 11 villagers were forced to look at the murders by the Red Army.[3]

105 people were killed in the crime, including children, old people and combatants.

jet fighters provided air support to the Red Army unit. They left the following day. It took seven days for the villagers to remove all the corpses from the canal, since the chemicals in the water would burn the feet of the people who tried to descend down the canal.[3] 2,500 armed guerrillas showed up later in the village, to prevent the Soviet Army to return to it.[3] The Afghan embassy rejected the witness accounts of the massacre, claiming that the tunnels are too small for people to hide in them, though investigators contradicted them, claiming that the said tunnels are over four feet in height.[3]
A witness described the aftermath:

The first day the population pulled out four bodies; the second day 30; the third, 68. Seven days later the last three. When we touched the bodies, pieces would stay in our hands. The first day, when we wanted to pull out the victims, the unbearable stench made us feel sick.[2]

Three eyewitnesses described the crime at a news conference at Freedom House, New York City, on 28 January 1983.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Richard Bernstein (28 January 1983). "Afghans, in New York, Tell of a Massacre by Russians". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e Human Rights Watch 1984, p. 43.
  3. ^
    Tyler, Patrick E. (13 February 1983). "The Horrors and Rewards of the Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan"
    . Washington Post. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  4. ^ a b Bellamy 2012, p. 280.
  5. UPI
    . Retrieved 12 September 2020.
  6. ^ Human Rights Watch 1984, p. 44.
  7. ^ United Nations Commission on Human Rights 1985, pp. 30–31.

Bibliography

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