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Hazara-Norwegians Condemn Terrorist Attacks in Oslo and Utøya

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Hazara People: Hazara-Norwegians, refugees and asylum seekers strongly condemn the terrorist attacks on innocent civilians in Oslo and Utøya(July 22, 2011). There is nothing to justify such massive violence. We the Hazara people extend our deepest sympathies to the victims of the attack in Oslo and Utøya. Hazara people have suffered genocide, slavery, force displacement, [...]

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Europe,Media | Read More »

Detainees continue protest at Qld centre

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AAP Around 70 detainees are continuing a peaceful demonstration at a remote immigration detention centre in Queensland, the immigration department says. More people had joined the protest at the Scherger Immigration Detention Centre near Weipa, on Cape York Peninsula, raising the number from 50 earlier in the day. A spokeswoman for the department said about [...]

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Australia,Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

Mass hunger strike as protests spread to Scherger Dentention Centre

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Around 60 Hazara asylum seekers in the far north Queensland Scherger detention centre have begun a hunger strike this morning, Thursday 21 July Many more people are expected to join the hunger strike as the day goes on. Many of the Hazaras have been in detention for between18 and 22 months, and are waiting for [...]

July 22nd, 2011 | Posted in Australia,Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

LeJ blamed for killing Hazaras in Quetta

Hazara Democratic Party activists outside the Quetta Press Club May 18 protest the slayings of Hazara Shia community members. About 25 Hazaras have been killed in three different attacks in Quetta in the past two months. [Zia Ur Rehman

QUETTA – Targeted killings are driving Hazaras, a Shia ethnic minority, to leave Quetta for safer areas. About 25 Hazaras have been killed in three different attacks in Quetta over the past two months, Amjad Hussain, a senior journalist, told Central Asia Online. Some 300,000 Hazaras live in Quetta. Most recently, Hazara police officers Aashiq [...]

July 21st, 2011 | Posted in Asia Pacific,Human Rights | Read More »

Photo Story: Prominent Hazara Poet Kamran Mir Hazar in International Poetry Festival of Medellín

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The 21º International Poetry Festival of Medellín July 2nd to 9th, 2011 Source and copyright: Kabul Press

July 18th, 2011 | Posted in Art,Hazara News,Latin America, US & Canada,Media | Read More »

Immigration officials accused of using wrong info

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Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. Sue Lannin reported this story on Friday, July 15, 2011 12:18:00 SHANE MCLEOD: Australian immigration authorities have been accused of relying on wrong information to reject a request for asylum from [...]

July 15th, 2011 | Posted in Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

Avoid Tampa disaster – refugee

RISKED LIFE: Mohammad Ali Amiri, left, was an asylum seeker on the Tampa in 2001./ CRAIG SIMCOX/The Dominion Post

Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. Avoid Tampa disaster – refugee SHABNAM DASTGHEIB A former Afghan asylum seeker says Australia’s treatment of the Tampa affair was a disaster, as the Refugee Council warns the Government against repeating [...]

July 14th, 2011 | Posted in Refugees & Asylum Seekers | Read More »

Italian Hazaras’ protest in Milan Italy

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Saturday July 9th 2011 Milan- Italy Hazara People:The Italian Hazaras, in a rally in Milan condemned the Kochi Taliban attacks on Nahur, Behsood and Daimirdad, Hazara’s systematic genocide in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Karzai’s discriminative action against Hazara MPs in the parliament of Afghanistan. They also condemned Jawad Zuhak’s assassination and asked the government to [...]

July 12th, 2011 | Posted in Discrimination,Europe,Genocide,Hazara News,Hazara People,Media | Read More »

Bamiyan, the future for Afghanistan

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By Sylvain ROUSSEAU At the start of July, NATO began to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, handing responsibility over to the Afghan authorities. Bamiyan is one of the first regions involved in this process. The first thing that strikes you on arrival are the distant mountain, with two gaping holes on either side. In March [...]

July 12th, 2011 | Posted in Afghanistan,Hazara News,Hazaristan,Media | Read More »

Three more Hazaras killed in a planned terrorist attack in Quetta

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Sunday, July 10th 2010 Quetta-Pakistan Hazara People: Hazara People’s correspondent reports from Quetta that three Hazaras were killed in a terrorist attack in Qambarani Road Quetta. The victims are Ashiq Hussain, Amjad Hussain and Abdul Qayoom by names who are all Hazaras from Quetta. Amjad Hussain and Ashiq Hussain were two government employees as officers. [...]

July 12th, 2011 | Posted in Asia Pacific,Hazara News,Hazara People | Read More »