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NewsThe Hazara Minority’s Precarious Existence in Afghanistan
by Sakhi Khalid On the evening of May 8, a car bomb exploded in front of a high school in a majority Hazara neighborhood of west Kabul, Afghanistan. The blast killed more than 85 civilians and injured...
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GenocideMore Than 90 Hazara Students Killed in Bomb Attacks in Kabul
Hazara International: More than 90 Hazara Students have been killed and dozens of others wounded after multiple blasts targeted Sayed Ul Shuhada School school girls, in Dasht-e-Barchi, West Kabul.Hospitals are still being searched for victims of the blast,...
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HazaristanHazaristan Charter
Preamble We, the Hazara, with a full understanding of human rights and a deep awareness of what happened to us and our land, Hazaristan, in the past, particularly in the last three centuries, ratify the...
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News‘Every year we dig mass graves’: the slaughter of Pakistan’s Hazara
Decades of persecution has left the Shia minority with little space left in its graveyards but prime minister Imran Khan is in no hurry to listen The 10 Hazara coalminers murdered by Isis were buried...
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NewsSCA employee suspended after Tweet inciting to extrajudicial killing
On Saturday, March 20, Shkula Zadran, (former) senior advocacy officer at the Swedish Committee for Afghanistan (SCA) in Kabul, posted the following Tweet in Dari: “Alipour and his men should be killed immediately. They are...
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Human RightsHazara Diaspora Organizations’ Statement on the Situation in Behsud, Afghanistan
We the undersigned, Hazara diaspora civil society organizations, express our deep concerns about the tense situation unfolding in the Behsud district of Afghanistan’s Maidan-Wardak province. The Afghanistan National Security and Defence Force (ANDSF) have been...
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CultureThe daring journey to reach Afghanistan’s famous Buddhas—before they were lost
Twenty years after the destruction of the ancient Bamiyan Buddhas, all that remains are empty niches—and memories. By Nina Strochlic | NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC Photographs By Pascal Maitre Pascal Maitre’s first, second, and third attempts to...
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GenocideIntersectionality: From American Black Movements to Yellow Uprising of the Hazara in Hazaristan
Kamran Mir Hazar Identifying the Patterns of Oppression Toward Social Justice and Self-Determination A draft application for a fictional citizen science project Abstract Using intersectionality as a theoretical ground, this paper drafts a fictional citizen...
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NewsBritish involvement in recent air raids on Hazara villages in Behsud, Afghanistan
Given the dark history of British involvement in the Hazara genocide of 1890s, Great Britain must immediately stop bombing the Hazara villages of Behsud in Afghanistan. On January 29th, Allahdad Fedae ordered his forces to...
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GenocideSeven Ethnic Hazaras Killed In Eastern Afghanistan
At least seven members of Afghanistan’s persecuted Hazara ethnic group were murdered in the country’s restive east, officials said on March 4, in the latest attack to target the largely Shi’ite minority. Hazara laborers had...
By Omid Jafari