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GenocideEXAMINING ATROCITIES AGAINST HAZARAS OF AFGHANISTAN IN THE CONTEXT OF GENOCIDE AND PROSPECTS OF A TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE PROCESS
The Afghan state’s war against the Hazara people in the 1890s wounded the country’s social fabric, a wound that still calls for healing. The official state policy of persecution of Hazaras significantly getting momentum in...
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AfghanistanUK Local Council Recognises Hazara Genocide
East Staffordshire Borough Council Passes Motion Recognising Hazara Genocide and Ongoing Persecution by the Taliban. In a historic decision, the East Staffordshire Borough Council has passed a motion officially recognising the 1891 Hazara genocide and...
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Afghanistan14 Hazaras Killed in Daikundi: ISIS-K Claims Responsibility for Attack
September 13, 2024 Daikundi, Afghanistan: In a brutal terrorist attack, at least 14 members of the Hazara ethnic group were shot dead and four others injured in the border area between Afghanistan’s Daikundi and Ghor...
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GenocideABA urges US government to recognize, stop, and prevent further acts of genocide perpetrated against the Hazara people in Afghanistan
The American Bar Association’s International Law Section has published a report on the ongoing persecution of Hazaras in Afghanistan entitled “Broken Frames, Shattered Glass: Recognising Crimes Perpetrated Against the Hazaras of Afghanistan”. The policy paper...
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AfghanistanWorld Hazara Council testifies at UN Forum on Minority Issues
UN Forum on Minority Issues | GENOCIDE WATCH The Hazara Genocide Thousands protest in London demand end to Hazara Genocide in Afghanistan. Picture: Omid Jafari Thank you, Chairperson. Excellencies, member states and participants – I...
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Genocide#Stop Hazara Genocide: Afghanistan’s deadly oppression of the Hazara
By The Mancunion Protests have taken off around the world following the latest Afghan bombing against the Hazaras. But who are the Hazaras, and what’s at stake in Afghanistan? On September 30 2022, a suicide...
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GenocideWhy the Hazara people fear genocide in Afghanistan
Sitarah Mohammadi | Sajjad Askary With a long history of persecution, the Hazaras fear the worst under Taliban rule In the aftermath of the withdrawal of international troops from Afghanistan, violence against the Hazara population...
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AfghanistanUrgent Action Needed: Hazaras in Afghanistan Under Attack
By Tallan Donine | United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the risk of mass atrocities has increased for vulnerable groups, including ethnic and religious minorities. Afghanistan...
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GenocideRemembering the 21st Anniversary of the Massacre of Yakaolang
Four months have passed since the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan, and the crimes committed by this group during its first rule between 1996 and 2001, are still fresh in the collective memory of the country....
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GenocideThe Genocide of Hazaras and the Silence of the World
It has been almost two months since the car bomb attack on 8th May 2021 against Sayed-al-Shohada girls high school in Dash-e-Barchi, a Hazara neighborhood in Kabul. Over 95 killed and more than 200 others...
By Salim Shafiq