Shia Genocide Events
Lahore, August 10, 1997:100 Shi’a Muslims lost lives in series of target killings
Date : October 10, 1997
Location : Lahore
Casualties :100
Gender : male , female , other ,
Narrative of the Event
The first ten days of August 1997 were very difficult for the Shia Muslims of Lahore. Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan’s death squad, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, has killed more than 16 Shi’a Muslims in a series of targeted killings.
In 1997, within the Lahore division of Punjab, Pakistan, 76 Shi’a Muslims fell victim to targeted violence orchestrated by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), led by Riaz Basra. The distressing incidents were extensively covered by Newsline and Herald, two distinguished monthly magazines based in Karachi, shedding light on a total of 132 prominent Shi’a Muslims subjected to targeted killings across 8 divisions of Punjab that year.1,2
References:
1-Source: Newsline 9/1997, p. 45; Sources: Dawn, 1 January 1998; Newsline 10/1999, p. 68.
2: The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority in Pakistan, p. 253. Published by the Oxford Press Foundation Pakistan in 2002.
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