{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Dispatches: Afghanistan\u2019s Afshar Agonies Remembered","author_name":"Administrator","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article227040.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article227040.html'\u003EDispatches: Afghanistan\u2019s Afshar Agonies Remembered\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003Eby Ahmad Shuja \n\u003Cbr class='autobr' \/\u003E\nTwenty-two years ago, residents of Kabul\u2019s Afshar district awoke to the sound of rockets launched at them from a nearby mountainside. February 11, 1993, marked the bloody dawn of the Afshar campaign, one of the worst mass atrocities of Afghanistan\u2019s civil war of the early 1990s. Powerful militia-backed faction leaders systematically planned and coordinated the Afshar campaign as part of their battle for control of the capital. Civilians bore the brunt of the brutality as the (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}