Char Darah

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Char Darah District
Districts of Kunduz Province; Char Darah in orange
Districts of Kunduz Province; Char Darah in orange
Basic data
Country Afghanistan
province Kunduz
ISO 3166-2 AF-KDZ

Coordinates: 36 ° 42 '  N , 68 ° 48'  E

Char Darah ( Pashto / Dari :چار دره Char Darreh , also Chahar Darreh or Chara Dara ) is a district in Kunduz Province in Afghanistan . It is mostlyinhabitedby Pashtuns .

history

The district has been one of the most contested areas in the war in Afghanistan since 2001 . Bundeswehr soldiers were repeatedly killed in Char Darah. In addition, the Bundeswehr field camp in Kunduz was shot at from positions in the region .

Operation Oqab , a military offensive by 300 German and 900 Afghan soldiers, took place in Char Darah in July 2009 . Tanks and heavy weapons were also used.

In September 2009, up to 142 people were killed in the airstrike near Kunduz in the district .

In December 2009, Operation Expand to Southern Chahar Darreh took place. The aim was to build a permanent outpost in Char Darah at height 431 and to regain the trust of the population in the local security forces.

In September 2010 a commando of the Special Forces Command (KSK) arrested the high-ranking Taliban leader Maulawi Roshan in a homestead in Char Darah.

The south of the district was the main area of operation for Operation Halmazag in autumn 2010 . After heavy fighting with the use of air and artillery support, the Bundeswehr declared the operation a success and spoke of a withdrawal of the Taliban . In the town of Quatliam a new outpost was created, which is held by the Kunduz Training and Protection Battalion . The height 431 could be abandoned in the course of the operation.

On March 9, 2011, according to the police chief of Char Darah, Gulam Mahidin, German ISAF soldiers shot a woman. Another woman was injured. According to an internal Bundeswehr investigation, the German soldiers are not responsible for the death or injury.

In August 2011, Operation Omed (Afghan for "hope") began in Char Darah . The Bundeswehr showed a massive presence.

The first offensive operations by the Bundeswehr, such as Operation Halmazag 2010 and the intensive operations management of the training and protection battalions in 2011, led to a temporary calm in the troubled district. After the Bundeswehr withdrew from Kunduz there was again increased fighting, including the temporary capture of the city of Kunduz.

Villages and towns

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bundeswehr reports success in the fight against Taliban. In: Frankfurter Rundschau . November 16, 2010, accessed November 17, 2010 .
  2. ↑ a b c Background: The Char Darah Troubled District. In: Focus . September 7, 2009, accessed February 3, 2012 .
  3. ^ Bundeswehr recaptures Taliban stronghold. In: Stern . July 23, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2012 .
  4. ^ Matthias Gebauer: KSK elite command summarizes top Taliban ( German ) Spiegel. September 22, 2010. Retrieved September 22, 2010.
  5. ^ Serious allegations against German soldiers in Kunduz. In: ORF . March 10, 2011, accessed March 10, 2011 .
  6. ↑ Report: Afghan woman not killed by Germans. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . March 12, 2011, accessed March 14, 2011 .
  7. ^ Andrè Spangenberg: The "little miracle" of Nawabad. In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . September 26, 2011, accessed February 15, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Afghanistan: Taliban have completely conquered Kunduz . In: The time . September 28, 2015, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed April 23, 2017]).