This evidence-led archive examines two adjudicated murder cases and six targeted attacks or state-violence cases with incomplete accountability, including the murder of Tetsu Nakamura, the 2018 Kabul ambulance bombing, attacks in Kabul and the 2015 airstrike on the MSF trauma hospital in Kunduz. Convictions, organizational claims, casualty verification and unresolved planning responsibility remain clearly separated.
Cases with verified convictions or equivalent judicial resolutions appear here. The label does not erase procedural criticism or incomplete accountability for additional participants.
Farkhunda was killed after a false accusation near a Kabul shrine. The Supreme Court confirmed prison terms against 13 men, while documented investigative and police-accountability failures leave wider responsibility incomplete.
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Maria Grazia Cutuli, Harry Burton, Azizullah Haidari and Julio Fuentes were killed on the Jalalabad–Kabul road. Three men were later sentenced to death; serious due-process concerns remain documented.
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An explosives-packed ambulance detonated near Sidarat Square. UNAMA verified 114 civilians killed and 229 injured; the Taliban claimed responsibility, but no prosecution was located.
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A U.S. AC-130 struck the MSF trauma hospital, killing 42 people. Operational failures and discipline were documented, but no criminal charges followed.
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Gunmen killed 24 people in an MSF-supported maternity wing. No group claimed responsibility, and no comprehensive public judgment identified the planners.
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Explosions struck a peaceful Hazara-led protest. UNAMA verified at least 85 civilians killed and 413 injured; the wider planning chain was not comprehensively adjudicated in the reviewed record.
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Four gunmen killed nine civilians during Nowruz, including journalist Sardar Ahmad and three members of his family. The attackers died; wider planning and command responsibility were not comprehensively adjudicated.
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Gunmen attacked a humanitarian aid vehicle, killing physician Tetsu Nakamura and five Afghan colleagues. No final public judgment identifying and convicting the perpetrators was located.
Open case file →Afghan officials announced 103 deaths and 235 injuries. UNAMA later verified 114 civilians killed and 229 injured, so the case file preserves and attributes both counts.
No prosecution or conviction was located. The Taliban claimed responsibility, but the organizational claim is not presented as a judicial finding against unnamed individuals.
Armed men attacked the MSF-supported maternity wing on May 12, 2020, killing 24 people. No group claimed responsibility and no comprehensive public judgment identified the planners.
Explosions struck a peaceful Enlightenment Movement demonstration on July 23, 2016. UNAMA verified at least 85 civilians killed and 413 injured.
ISKP claimed the attack in an anti-Shia statement. The claim is attributed and is not presented as an individual criminal conviction.
The archive begins with the 2015 murder of Farkhunda Malikzada in central Kabul.
No evidence supported it. Afghan police confirmed after the killing that there was no evidence she had burned the Quran.
Yes. Afghanistan's Supreme Court confirmed prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years against 13 men in March 2016.
Confirmed convictions coexist with documented investigative failures, participants who were not arrested and limited accountability for police officers who failed to intervene.
Yes. Three men received death sentences that the Supreme Court reportedly upheld. Rights organizations also documented allegations of unfair trials and lack of counsel.
The direct attackers were killed and the Taliban claimed responsibility, but no comprehensive public judgment located for this review established every planner, facilitator or commander.
Crime by Region separates the established event, trial judgments, appeals and criticism of the justice process. A Supreme Court-confirmed conviction supports an adjudicated label; it does not prove that every member of a large crowd or every official failure received complete judicial scrutiny.