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Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Watchdog Records 17 Attacks on Places of Worship
2020-07-20
[ToloNews] Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission has recorded 17 targeted and suicide kabooms on worshippers, imams of mosques and worshippers over the last nine months in which 170 people have bit the dust.

Four children are also among those killed in the attacks, according to the commission. The report of the watchdog shows that 272 others were maimed in these attacks that the organization blames Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
, ISIS and unknown gunnies for them.

The report covers data from Oct. 17, 2019 to July 13, 2020.

The report mentions attacks on two mosques in Kabul, on Sikhs temple in Kabul and Jalalabad and attacks on religious scholars in Takhar, Parwan, Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman.The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin.
He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property.
After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
, Paktia and Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
provinces.

"Based on international rights, any attack on civilians is war crime," said Zabihullah Farhang, head of media office of the commission.

The report says that last month, Taliban tortured and killed Sheikh Hussain, the imam of a mosque in Kohna Masjid village in Dahana-e-Ghori district of Baghlan province on charges of performing funeral of a local police commander.

"If the Taliban want, no terrorist group will be able to operate in Afghanistan," said Abdul Sattar Hussaini, an MP.

Taliban has not commented on the report so far.

The commission has called on the Afghan government to protect religious places in the country and hold perpetrators of such incidents accountable.
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Dahana-e-Ghori district: 2016-12-19 Afghan Army Plans Large-Scale Operation In North
Dahana-e-Ghori district: 2016-09-19 Baghlan Residents Urge Govt To Clear Dahana-e-Ghori Of Taliban
Dahana-e-Ghori district: 2016-08-17 Afghan forces prepare to retake lost district in Baghlan province
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