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Kunduz massacre, the Glossary

The Kunduz massacre was a war crime perpetrated by the Soviet Army on 22 December 1984 in the village of Haji Rahmatullah in the Kunduz Province, during the Soviet–Afghan War.^[1]

22 relations: Afghanistan, Anti-communism, Bayonet, Char Dara District, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Helsinki Watch, KHAD, Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi massacre, Kunduz Province, Looting, Mass murder, Massacre, Mujahideen, Murder, Rape, Rauzdi massacre, Soviet Army, Soviet war crimes, Soviet–Afghan War, Summary execution, War crime.
1984 in Afghanistan
Massacres committed by the Soviet Union
Soviet war crimes in Afghanistan

Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is political and ideological opposition to communist beliefs, groups, and individuals.

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A bayonet (from Old French bayonette, now spelt baïonnette) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle, carbine, musket or similar long firearm, allowing the gun to be used as an improvised spear in close combats.

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Char Dara District

Chārdara District (also known as Chahar Dara, Chahar Darreh or Char Darreh) is one of the seven districts in Kunduz Province in northern Afghanistan.

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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), renamed the Republic of Afghanistan in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992.

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker.

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Helsinki Watch

Helsinki Watch was a private American non-governmental organization established by Robert L. Bernstein in 1978, designed to monitor the former Soviet Union's compliance with the 1975 Helsinki Accords.

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KHAD

Khadamat-e Aetla'at-e Dawlati (Pashto/خدمات اطلاعات دولتی literally "State Intelligence Agency", also known as "State Information Services" or "Committee of State Security"), also known by the acronym KhAD, was the agency in charge of internal security, foreign intelligence, counter-intelligence and the secret police of the former Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi massacre

The Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi massacre was an alleged war crime reportedly perpetrated by the Soviet Army on 12 October 1983 in the villages of Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi in the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, during the Soviet–Afghan War. Kunduz massacre and Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi massacre are massacres committed by the Soviet Union and Soviet war crimes in Afghanistan.

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Kunduz Province

Kunduz (قندوز) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the northern part of the country next to Tajikistan.

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Looting

Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), or rioting.

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Mass murder

Mass murder is the violent crime of killing a number of people, typically simultaneously or over a relatively short period of time and in close geographic proximity.

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Massacre

A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.

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Mujahideen

Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse committed with the necessary intention as defined by the law in a specific jurisdiction.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Rauzdi massacre

The Rauzdi massacre or Rauza massacre was a war crime perpetrated by the Soviet Army on 30 June 1983 in the village of Rauzdi, in the Ghazni Province, Afghanistan, during the Soviet–Afghan War. Kunduz massacre and Rauzdi massacre are massacres committed by the Soviet Union and Soviet war crimes in Afghanistan.

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Soviet Army

The Ground Forces of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union (Sovetskiye sukhoputnye voyska) was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992.

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Soviet war crimes

From 1917 to 1991, a multitude of war crimes and crimes against humanity were carried out by the Soviet Union or any of its Soviet republics, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and its armed forces.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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Summary execution

In civil and military jurisprudence, summary execution is the putting to death of a person accused of a crime without the benefit of a free and fair trial.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunduz_massacre