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The Afshar Massacre was a state-sponsored military operation in Afghanistan that took place on February 11–12, 1993 during the Second Afghan Civil War. The operation was launched by Ahmad Shah Massoud and Burhanuddin Rabbani's Islamic State of Afghanistan government and the allied Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf's Ittehad-i Islami paramilitary forces against the densely populated, Hazara majority, Afshar district in west Kabul. The Afshar operation, which saw hundreds of Shia Hazaras systemically targeted and depopulated from villages in the area was considered one of the first such sectarian oriented incident in Afghanistan's modern history. It is also considered to have been one of the worst single events in Afghanistan's wars.
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