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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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OpinionA socio-historical perspective about the Hazara community’s stance on the second Taliban regime
Salima Mazari, former governor of Charkint, with her personnel near the frontlines against the Taliban Since the foundation of modern Afghanistan, Hazara have been subjected to forced displacement, genocide, and even slavery at the hand...
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OpinionHave the Taliban really changed?
Data collected and published by human rights groups on the Taliban showed that their intolerance of dissidents are no different to their past and they have not changed. When the United States (US) started talks...
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OpinionAfghanistan’s anti-Iranian syndrome: denying the Hazaras’ political agency
Talking in favor of nationalism brings up scorn from fellow academics and scholars at a university setting. Prioritizing one’s ethnicity or group’s security and well-being above others as contemptible and scornful. However, the pitfall of...
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OpinionTHE WOUNDED HAZARA
The haggle Prime Minister Imran Khan had before flying to Quetta to commiserate with the families of the 10 miners who had been brutally slaughtered, amounted to rubbing salt into the Hazara people’s wounds. In...
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OpinionPakistan should be grateful to its persecuted Hazara minority for setting models of tolerance
by Ia Rehman Salute the Hazaras, one of the most gentle, peaceful and civilised communities in Pakistan. It was unfair to oblige them to supplicate for the country’s prime minister’s attention – something they were...
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OpinionPakistan/Hazara people resist ongoing genocide
by Tania Siddiqi On Jan. 3, gunmen abducted and executed 11 coal miners, all of whom belonged to Pakistan’s Hazara community. Responding to yet another targeted attack, the Hazara people in Balochistan arranged the martyrs’...
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OpinionAfghan Godfather, his Gangsters, and the US Aid Cutoff during COVID-19 Crisis
Despite real danger of Covid-19 for the health of millions of citizens of Afghanistan, the populist leader of the Afghan Cabinet tries to stop breach of any news and real information to the media regarding...
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OpinionThe fateful Hazaras of Pakistan
BY SYED KASWAR GARDEZI Every morning, the Hazara community wakes up to a fear of the unknown. A fear that has crippled the community to the verge of giving up. Giving up on their right...
By Hazara International