[1] According to the Human Rights Watch report, based on eyewitness testimonies, the Soviet army occupied the Baraki Barak District on 6 September during the Logar offensives.

They were expecting reinforcements from the Afghan Democratic Republic army in Kabul, but one of the officers defected to anti-communist resistance members, taking a large part of convoy with him.

As reprisals, the Soviet army arrested 40 local civilians, tied them up, poured gasoline over them and set them on fire, burning them alive.

[1] According to a March 1985 Congressional Record report, 45 people were killed in the area.

30 were killed while on their way to Iran; some were burned alive with petrol; others had dynamite tied up to their backs and were blown up.