Note: English translation courtesy of Hazara Organization for Progress and Equality (HOPE), USA. Dated: Sept 21, 2011 HDP Press Release to Journalists regarding Ethnic Cleansing of Hazaras in Pakistan Dear Journalists, I [Chairman HDP, Khaliq Hazara] welcome you to this press briefing! On 20th Sept, 2011, once again the enemies of humankind killed 30 innocent [...]
Natalie O’Brien THE Customs and Border Protection Agency is under pressure to reveal all it knows about a missing asylum seeker boat carrying 105 Hazaras from Afghanistan after being accused of giving contradictory evidence to Federal Parliament. The head of Customs, Michael Carmody, told a Senate estimates committee last year that ”we did not have [...]
by Aziza Zafari On 12th September, 2011 at 1 pm a program was held under the title “Afghanistan is not what you see, Afghanistan is what you should see” by the group of students belonging to the “Flinders University Afghan Union”. The speakers talked in English. The event opened with Afghan finger food and the [...]
QUETTA: The Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) staged a demonstration outside the Quetta Press Club on Tuesday against the deteriorating law and order situation and the killings targeting the Hazara community. The protesters were carrying placards and banners inscribed with slogans in support of their demands. They chanted slogans against the government and its functionaries’ failure [...]
NICK BUTTERLY, AFGHANISTAN, The West Australian Aziz Mohammadi has done the calculations on the risks he faces in making the journey to Australia to claim asylum. The 25-year-old sociology student has watched others from his town embark on the challenge and reckons he has a 2 per cent chance of dying while attempting the trip [...]
Kirsty Needham ANY MOVE to make it easier to deport lone asylum-seeker children will be open to challenge, and controversial. An Australian National University legal expert, Donald Rothwell, said there were common law obligations that applied to children, as well as obligations stemming from the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Changes [...]
by Kinzey Posen SCENE producer Winnipeg’s Musa Hazara makes music and art that is inspired by his homeland of Urazagan, Central Afghanistan. Musa learned to play Hazaragi songs at home as a young boy listening to his father playing and singing. He later studied with two masters in his area. He sings traditional songs and [...]
By: Vikki Riley If you are an Australian tourist en route to Bali for holidays or business, spare a thought next time you fly over Kupang, just an hour out of Darwin, for the Hazara asylum seekers locked up courtesy of the Indonesian police and dining on tainted white rice laced with dirt, ants and [...]
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