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SUICIDE BOMBER TURNED GALA EID FEROCIOUS FOR HAZARAS IN QUETTA
Today at about 09:30 hours (PST), the adjacent areas to Alamdar Road jolted heavily due to a suicide bombing, occurring on Major Mohammad Ali Shaheed Road. This resulted in the death of 11 people, including 3 women and 1 minor girl and injuring 22 others. Most injured are said to be children. Bomb disposal squad [...]
Australian Hazara Champion, now a Hollywood celebrity visits refugees and his fans in Europe
Talented Hazara martial arts champion and actor Hussain Sadiqi, who is known in Australia as a new Jackie Chan is visiting refugees and his fans in European countries. Since his move to Los Angles, California to pursue his film carrier in Hollywood, this is Hussain Sadiqi’s first visit with the refugees and his fans in [...]
UNSAFE HAVEN: HAZARAS IN AFGHANISTAN
UTS Tower Foyer, Level 4, 15 Broadway, NSW 5 September 2011 – 7 October 2011 In January 2011 the Australian and Afghan Governments signed an agreement allowing the forced repatriation of Afghan refugees ‘judged not to be in need of international protection’. Forty-nine refugees from the Afghan Hazara minority have now had their refugee status [...]
Australians don’t fully understand what is being done in their name
Julian Burnside Misinformation and dishonesty abounds over asylum seekers. ON AUGUST 26, 2001, a small fishing boat called Palapa I began to sink in the Indian Ocean. Ordinarily, it would have been fit to carry 20 or 30 people. On board were 433 asylum seekers, mostly Hazaras escaping the Taliban and trying to reach Australia. [...]
Fear fuels refugees’ Australia dreams
AFP KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21, 2011 (AFP) – – Akhbar and his family fled a perilous existence in Afghanistan for an uncertain life in Malaysia and now dream of a better future in Australia under a controversial refugee swap deal. If that doesn’t happen, he says, he is willing to risk death to sneak into [...]
The killers come and sanctuary is far away
Ben Doherty SARWAR had been home a week when they came for him. After more than two years away from Afghanistan – on leaky boats and in refugee camps seeking a new country to call home – he returned to his village in Ghazni province. ”He was at his home for one week, when some [...]
Tampa refugees resurface as Kiwis
Tom Dusevic, National chief reporter From: The Australian HUSSAIN Ewazi remembers the stench of vomit and the panic and praying, as an unsound fishing boat, carrying 433 people, was thrashed by a merciless sea. “In a word, fear,” the 19-year-old Afghan refugee says of his lasting memory of the torment. Ten years on, Zakaria Safdari, [...]
Lives dogged by poverty, danger and uncertainty, the struggle continues for Tampa’s returnees
Ben Doherty, South Asia Correspondent IN THE eyes of the Taliban, Rauf’s sins are legion. He is Hazara, an ethnicity regarded by the Pashtun militants as un-Afghan, barely human. He is a Christian, an abomination in Islamic fundamentalist eyes, and a left-wing political activist. But perhaps his greatest crime was teaching girls to read. Rauf [...]
Freedom
by Organization of Hazara Refugees in Curtin IDC It is known to all and history has also proven that Hazaras have always and systemically been a target of national, religious and ethnic oppression and cruelty. Yet thousands of people including women and children have lost their lives and thousands of families have lost their guardians. [...]
