The Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi massacre was an alleged war crime reportedly perpetrated by the Soviet Army on 12 October 1983 in the villages of Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi in the Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, during the Soviet–Afghan War.

On 10 and 11 October, the Jamiat-e Islami resistance members attacked and destroyed several Soviet military vehicles in a convoy.

[5] As a revenge, the Soviet Army and an Afghan collaborator who served as their interpreter went to Kulchabat, Bala Karz and Mushkizi villages, suspected of sheltering the guerilla fighters,[5] and went from house to house, shooting people living there.

[4] In one house, they locked women and children inside a room and killed them by throwing grenades through the window, bayonetting any survivors.

The young son of 13 years old lay crumpled in another corner with his head shot away.