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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 [...]

A Hazara student made an aircraft and had successful flight over Shiberghan

Hazara People note: We do respect all ethnic groups, but Hazara People are not Afghan. Afghan or Pashtun is another ethnic group in Afghanistan. Afghan flies his aircraft over Shiberghan by Hadi Ghafari on 6 August, 2011 – 16:09 BAMYAN CITY (PAN): An airplane, made by an Afghan citizen three years ago, has made five [...]

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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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Hazara medical worker killed by Pashtu Taliban

This undated handout photo provided by the International Assistance Mission office in Kabul shows Hazara Mahram Ali, 50, who was killed in Afghanistan. Gunmen killed 10 medical workers, including eight foreigners, in Afghanistan’s remote northeast, police and officials said on August 7, 2010 and the Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Afghanistan: Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan

Human Rights Watch I. SUMMARY This report documents two massacres committed by Taliban forces in the central highlands of Afghanistan, in January 2001 and May 2000. In both cases the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ethnic group that has been the target of previous massacres and other serious human rights violations by Taliban [...]

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The Hazara carnage in Afghanistan

Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:00:16 GMT After decades of war, the Afghan police have become somewhat immune to sights of carnage. However, a recent patrol in the Khas Uruzgan district of Uruzgan province, just north of Kandahar, recently stumbled upon a particularly grisly sight, which could cause nightmares among even the most seasoned police veterans. [...]

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No mercy: Hazara men, women and children were murdered in their homes as Taliban gunmen took over Mazar-e-Sharif Michael Sheridan, Nov 01,1998 THE first detailed eyewitness accounts of the massacre of up to 8,000 people by Islamic fundamentalist Taliban fighters who ran amok in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif last August have been passed [...]

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Afghanistan: The truth must be exposed

News Service 159/98 AI INDEX: ASA 11/06/98 17 AUGUST 1998 The Taleban’s refusal to allow independent monitoring of the situation in the northern areas of Afghanistan — following the fall of Mazar-e Sharif and several other major towns to the Taleban last week — could serve to conceal the human rights violations in the area, [...]

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Afghanistan: Thousands of civilians killed following Taleban takeover of Mazar-e Sharif

AI INDEX: ASA 11/07/98 News Service 171/98 3 SEPTEMBER 1998 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Afghanistan: Thousands of civilians killed following Taleban takeover of Mazar-e Sharif Taleban guards deliberately and systematically killed thousands of ethnic Hazara civilians during the first three days following their military takeover of Mazar-e Sharif on 8 August 1998, according to new [...]

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