Version 1 of Yakaolang massacre of 2001

Hizb-i Wahdat and Harakat-i Islami forces retook Yakaolang, in the Hazarajat, on 28 December 2000.¹ The Taliban began advancing on it from Bamyan on 7 January 2001, and reached the district centre of Nayak the next day. They held the area until driven out on 23 January.²

Search parties went house to house rounding up men. About a hundred men gathered at an aid centre were herded towards Nayak, and most were later executed.² Village elders who came to negotiate were killed, as were staff of aid agencies and a clinic.² Humanitarian workers estimated that thousands fled.²

The sections of the report consulted for this article give figures for individual sites rather than a single total. The report also names victims in a partial list, which should be recorded here with care.¹

The same report documents an earlier killing of Hazaras at Robatak Pass in May 2000.¹

Footnotes

1. Human Rights Watch, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, February 2001. ↩ ↩² ↩³

2. Human Rights Watch, Massacre in Yakaolang, January 2001, in Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴