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