ssm@cmu-ri-leg.ARPA (Sesh Murthy) (03/28/85)
A Western diplomat says that Soviet military forces were reported to have
massacred 900 civilians in Kunduz province in northern Afghanistan, but that
there was no independent confirmation of this account.
He said that bullock carts were reported seen hauling away bodies
after the massacre.
The diplomat said he had no details as to when and exactly where the
assault took place.
According to an earlier diplomatic report, 480 civilians were killed
at Chahardara town in Kunduz in early February in retaliation for
rebel land-mine attacks on ranking Soviet officials.
Western diplomats, speaking on condition they not be identified by
name or country, briefed journalists on Tuesday about the report.
Anti-Marxist guerrillas have been fighting troops of the
Soviet-supported Kabul regime and Soviet troops who intervened in
Afghanistan since late 1979.
The diplomats said that guerrilla bomb attacks on Soviet-inhabited
areas in the Afghan capital of Kabul last week killed at least seven
Soviets.
They said that a big explosion on March 19 in an Afghan-owned shop
in the Soviets' Microraion residential complex killed at least three
Soviets and injured more than 25, including women and children.
A bomb blast last Saturday in the Share Nau shopping area killed or
badly hurt four Soviets, the diplomats reported.
Another bomb was said to have been planted at the Pakistan Embassy
on March 18, but there were no details.
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