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Human RightsLegalising’ marital rape
Channel 4 News, Updated on 28 January 2010 Last spring President Karzai backed a law governing Shia family relations that effectively legalised marital rape and allowed for women to effectively be imprisoned in their homes....
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Pakistan and the rest of Asia PacificHazaras Hustle to Head of Class in Afghanistan
RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. and ABDUL WAHEED WAFA January 3, 2010 KABUL, Afghanistan — For much of this country’s history, the Hazara were typically servants, cleaners, porters and little else, a largely Shiite minority sidelined...
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Human RightsWomen protesters against ‘marital rape’ law spat on and stoned in Kabul
Tom Coghlan in Kabul, April 16, 2009 A group of Afghan women who braved an enraged mob yesterday to protest against an “abhorrent” new Afghan law had to be rescued by police from a hail...
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DiscriminationHazara tribesmen under attack in Quetta
* Hazara MPA says killings of minorities motivated by religion * Says Quetta has been communally harmonious until recently By Malik Siraj Akbar QUETTA: Hazara tribesmen in Balochistan, numbering around 300,000, are currently living under...
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Genocide“Meaningful” silence of media About genocide in Afghanistan
By: Yar, July 17 2008, The history of hazara’s genocide started in the period of Abdullrahman Khan at the end of 19 century, when Britannia thrones and dethrones Afghan kings from British India. Britannia always...
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DiscriminationUN finds mass graves of Hazara killed by Taliban
By Patrick Cockburn, Monday, 8 April 2002 United Nations investigators found evidence yesterday of three mass graves near the central Afghan city of Bamiyan, believed to contain ethnic Hazaras killed by the Taliban in their...
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GenocideThe Truth About Talibans
From Yakaolang where many people were massacred by Taliban in Jan 2001 Taliban brutally killed many people because they belong to Hazara ethnic minority. Taliban brutally killed many people because they belong to Hazara ethnic...
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DiscriminationAfghanistan: Massacre in Yakaolang
Media Advisory 28 March 2001 AI Index ASA 11/007/2001 – News Service Nr. 56 Afghanistan: Massacre in Yakaolang Amnesty International today issued a report on January’s massacre of over 300 unarmed men and a number...
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Discrimination
Massacres in Yakaolang
Amnesty International has now obtained detailed information which corroborates earlier reports of the massacre of civilians in Yakaolang in the central province of Bamiyan. According to eyewitness reports, Taleban forces began to arrest people and...
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GenocideTaleban accused of mass killing
Courtesy Xbox 360 Videos Human Rights Watch says it has evidence that about 170 men and boys were killed by Taleban troops in central Afghanistan. BBC
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