Taliban Begins Wholesale Suppression of Human Rights in Afghanistan
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Religion, Ethics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Wars, Battles, Invasions, Raids, Conquests, Sieges, Islam, Muslims, Mosques, Human Rights, Civil Wars, Coups
- Curriculum: Asian History, Middle Eastern History
- Geographical Location: Afghanistan, South Asia
- Date: Autumn, 1996
Article abstract: The Taliban, an organization of fundamentalist Afghani Muslims, completed their conquest of the country of Afghanistan and inaugurated a regime characterized by a suppression of human rights.
Summary of Event
In 1989, after a ten-year occupation of Afghanistan, the Soviet Union withdrew its military from the country. Three years later, the Soviet-backed Afghan government collapsed, and Afghanistan lapsed into lawlessness and civil war. A new regime may be said to have been established four years later, when on September 27, 1996, an...
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