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World-wide Protest: Declaration Against Hazara Genocide In Pakistan

World-wide Protest: Declaration Against Hazara Genocide In Pakistan

At least 92 members of Hazara died, including some 20 women and 18 children, more than 200 sustained serious injuries and 30 people gone missing when a bombed ripped through a densely populated fruit market situated in Hazara Town, a Hazara enclave, in Quetta on Saturday, 16 February, 2013. It happened just 38 days after [...]

Five Hazara Civilians Gunned Down In East Afghanistan

Reports from Afghanistan say five civilians travelling in a bus in the eastern province of Ghazni have been shot dead. Provincial officials said Taliban militants stopped the bus on October 26 in the Andar district, pulled out five people, and killed them on the spot. Police recovered the bodies on October 27 from the roadside. [...]

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Hazara activists demonstrate against Iranian regime

Hazara People International Network: Hundreds of Hazara activists, holding placards which read “Kabul is not Tehran or Qom “, take part in a protest denouncing Iran’s subversive activities in Afghanistan in Kabul on Jun 1, 2012. Photo by BBC Persian and DW

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Worldwide Protest 2012: Kabul, Afghanistan

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SETTING ORUZGAN’S VIOLENT STAGE

The Hazara Wars The probability of ethnonationalist conflict increases with the number of prior conflicts fought in the name of the same ethnic group.1 Historically, there have been two opposing political and societal forces functioning in Afghanistan, the “urban modernists” seeking to create a modern nation-state and the “rural traditionalists” who prefer to avoid central [...]

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Pashtun Suicide bomber kills civilians including Hazaras in Kabul

A wounded Hazara man rests in a hospital after a suicide bomb attack in Kabul January 12, 2011. A suicide bomber on a motorbike killed two people and wounded more than 35 near the Afghan parliament on Wednesday, officials said, the third bomb attack in the capital Kabul in less than a month. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood [...]

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The Hazara School

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The Hazara School

by Brian Platt It took me over an hour to get to Marefat School, far out on the outskirts of West Kabul. Once I was there, I didn’t want to leave. Marefat is a school in a very poor Hazara district of Kabul. The school started, as so many education programs did, in the refugee [...]

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Photographs of a female Hazara asylum seeker killed by Iranian border police

She was from Bamyan and was killed by Iranian border police last week.

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Photograph of a Hazara killed by Afghan security forces in Kabul

Afghan police shooting to kill ethnic minority in Kabul Robert Maier Breaking news from Kabul today informs us that a demonstration by men, women and children to call attention to the violence being perpetrated against the Hazara people turned bloody, with several shot to death, allegedly through indiscriminate firing into the crowd by Afghan police. [...]

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Kabul: Hazara Children in Painting Course

Hazara girls paint during a painting course in Kabul, 01 October 2007. During the Taliban regime many of the arts such as music, photography and painting, specially for girls and women, were banned as they were believed by Taliban leaders to be against Islam. Copyright: Getty Images

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