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Gosfandi District

Coordinates: 36°13′17″N 65°55′40″E / 36.22139°N 65.92778°E / 36.22139; 65.92778
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Gosfandi
گوسفندی
Gosfandi is located in Afghanistan
Gosfandi
Gosfandi
Location in Afghanistan
Coordinates: 36°13′17″N 65°55′40″E / 36.22139°N 65.92778°E / 36.22139; 65.92778
Country Afghanistan
ProvinceSar-e Pol
Elevation
1,220 m (4,000 ft)
Population
 • Religions
Islam
Time zoneUTC+4:30

Gosfandi District is a district of Sar-e Pol Province, Afghanistan. After the Taliban's rise to power in the 1990s, they committed five massacres, killing some 96 people, in the district.[1]

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  1. ^ Nitya Ramakrishnan (25 July 2013). In Custody: Law, Impunity and Prisoner Abuse in South Asia. SAGE Publications. pp. 398–. ISBN 978-81-321-1632-5.