December 2001: “At around 11 a.m. one day in the first week of December, a group of about 300 armed Hazaras arrived at the remote Pashtun village of Bargah-e Afghani, located in the Chimtal district of Balkh province.” 1/? 
“Just two days prior to the arrival of the Hazara fighters, the villagers of Bargah-e Afghani had handed over their firearms to Manzullah Khan, an Uzbek commander of Junbish, and in return had received a written confirmation from him that they had been disarmed.” 2/?
“Manzullah Khan had also placed twelve of his soldiers in the village after its population was disarmed, but the soldiers ran away when the Hazara fighters attacked the village.”
“Most of the villagers quickly fled the village, but the Hazara fighters killed 37 men who stayed behind, the largest documented killing of civilians since the fall of the Taliban.”
Source: “Paying for the Taliban’s Crimes: Abuses Against Ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afgh.” HRW
Source: “Paying for the Taliban’s Crimes: Abuses Against Ethnic Pashtuns in Northern Afgh.” HRW
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