The Kerala massacre (not to be confused with the state in India) was an alleged incident on 20 April 1979 described in American publication The Christian Science Monitor based on reports from Afghans in Pakistani refugee camps.

In particular, the Russian press agency TASS denounced reports published by a number of American publications about the allegations, particularly Newsweek and the Christian Science Monitor.

Nikolai Repin, a TASS commentator, charged that the western news media had shattered all records in anti-Soviet propaganda in spreading what he called "the monstrous misinformation" about a massacre.

The whole story of a "mass execution" also does not correspond to reality; it is pure invention from start to finish....The fabrications are so vile that they would not even be worth answering had not this deliberate slander against millions of people been spread all over the world....

The falsehood that was fabricated with their participation is a component part of the malicious campaign that is being waged against the USSR and Afghanistan by imperialist propaganda.In October 2015, Sadeq Alamyar was arrested by Dutch National Police Corps in the Netherlands on suspicion of war crimes, based on a criminal complaint filed in 2008.