{"id":36195,"date":"2018-01-23T13:18:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html"},"modified":"2018-01-23T13:18:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T12:18:28","slug":"kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html","title":{"rendered":"Kabul Hotel Attack a \"War Crime\", says HRW"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

This weekend\u2019s\u00a0attack on the Intercontinental Hotel<\/a>\u00a0was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in\u00a0Afghanistan<\/a>. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible for war crimes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The\u00a0Taliban have claimed responsibility for the hours-long attack on the hotel<\/a>, during which\u00a0gunmen killed at least seven\u00a0Afghans and 11 foreign nationals<\/a>, most of them shot dead in their rooms or the hotel dining room.\u00a0The attackers, who reportedly entered through the kitchen<\/a>, worked their way through the hotel floors, blowing open guests\u2019 rooms and shooting whoever was inside, or detonating grenades. Some people were injured or killed jumping out of windows while trying to escape. The death toll may rise further as\u00a0some hotel guests are reportedly still missing<\/a>, and fire has destroyed part of the hotel.<\/p>\n

Attacks harming civilians in Afghanistan have increased sharply in the past year. The most\u00a0recent report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan<\/a>\u00a0notes that\u00a0in the first half of 2017, more civilian deaths and injury from suicide and complex attacks were documented than in any previous period<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Intercontinental Hotel attack is a grim and unnecessary reminder of the increasingly routine carnage deliberately inflicted by combatants against civilians in flagrant violation of international law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend\u2019s\u00a0attack on the Intercontinental Hotel\u00a0was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in\u00a0Afghanistan. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible for war crimes. The\u00a0Taliban have claimed responsibility for the hours-long attack on the hotel, during which\u00a0gunmen killed at least seven\u00a0Afghans and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":63714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[],"ji_location":[2571],"class_list":["post-36195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","ji_location-afghanistan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nKabul Hotel Attack a "War Crime", says HRW - JusticeInfo.net<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kabul Hotel Attack a "War Crime", says HRW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This weekend\u2019s\u00a0attack on the Intercontinental Hotel\u00a0was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in\u00a0Afghanistan. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible for war crimes. The\u00a0Taliban have claimed responsibility for the hours-long attack on the hotel, during which\u00a0gunmen killed at least seven\u00a0Afghans and […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"JusticeInfo.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-23T12:18:28+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"552\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Human Rights Watch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@justiceinfonet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@justiceinfonet\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Human Rights Watch\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"civiliste\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/015ad428615c9bd082c2b6aa8df6cad0\"},\"headline\":\"Kabul Hotel Attack a \\\"War Crime\\\", says HRW\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-01-23T12:18:28+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html\"},\"wordCount\":223,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Opinion\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html\",\"name\":\"Kabul Hotel Attack a \\\"War Crime\\\", says HRW - JusticeInfo.net\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2018-01-23T12:18:28+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg\",\"width\":800,\"height\":552},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kabul Hotel Attack a \\\"War Crime\\\", says HRW\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/\",\"name\":\"JusticeInfo.net\",\"description\":\"For justice to be done, it must be seen\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Justice Info\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png\",\"width\":1199,\"height\":1200,\"caption\":\"Justice Info\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/justiceinfonet\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/justice-info\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyCEsARodyuWtkWyhn-e7pA\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"Human Rights Watch\",\"url\":\"\/en\/?s=Human Rights Watch\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kabul Hotel Attack a \"War Crime\", says HRW - JusticeInfo.net","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kabul Hotel Attack a \"War Crime\", says HRW","og_description":"This weekend\u2019s\u00a0attack on the Intercontinental Hotel\u00a0was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in\u00a0Afghanistan. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible for war crimes. The\u00a0Taliban have claimed responsibility for the hours-long attack on the hotel, during which\u00a0gunmen killed at least seven\u00a0Afghans and […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html","og_site_name":"JusticeInfo.net","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/","article_published_time":"2018-01-23T12:18:28+00:00","og_image":[{"width":800,"height":552,"url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Human Rights Watch","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@justiceinfonet","twitter_site":"@justiceinfonet","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Human Rights Watch","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html"},"author":{"name":"civiliste","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/015ad428615c9bd082c2b6aa8df6cad0"},"headline":"Kabul Hotel Attack a \"War Crime\", says HRW","datePublished":"2018-01-23T12:18:28+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html"},"wordCount":223,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg","articleSection":["Opinion"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html","name":"Kabul Hotel Attack a \"War Crime\", says HRW - JusticeInfo.net","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg","datePublished":"2018-01-23T12:18:28+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/753b93dc0325fa30a2df4648094f83b8.jpg","width":800,"height":552},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/36195-kabul-hotel-attack-a-war-crime.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kabul Hotel Attack a \"War Crime\", says HRW"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/","name":"JusticeInfo.net","description":"For justice to be done, it must be seen","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#organization","name":"Justice Info","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/justiceinfo_logo-trans_1200x1200px.png","width":1199,"height":1200,"caption":"Justice Info"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JusticeInfo\/","https:\/\/x.com\/justiceinfonet","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/justice-info","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyCEsARodyuWtkWyhn-e7pA"]},{"@type":"Person","name":"Human Rights Watch","url":"\/en\/?s=Human Rights Watch"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36195"},{"taxonomy":"ji_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.justiceinfo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ji_location?post=36195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}