On 11 March 2012 , the Kandahar massacre occurred when sixteen civilians were killed and six wounded in the Panjwayi District of Kandahar Province , Afghanistan . Nine of the victims were children , and eleven of the dead were from the same family . United States Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales was taken into custody and charged with sixteen counts of premeditated murder . After pleading guilty to sixteen counts of premeditated murder , Bales was sentenced to life in prison without parole and dishonorably discharged from the United States Army
Kandahar massacre
Kandahar massacre
War in Afghanistan (2001–present)