Life as One of the Most-Persecuted Ethnic Groups on the Planet
By Jeffrey Stern Imagine that you live in Afghanistan. Your ancestors have lived there for hundreds of years, but you are a minority. In fact, you are a minority two times over, because the religion you practice is different from the one most people practice, and the way you look is different from the way [...]
By DECLAN WALSH KARACHI, Pakistan — Stranded in a dingy hotel in the heart of this port city, waiting for the smuggler’s call, Hussain felt at once trapped and poised for freedom. Behind lay his hometown, Quetta, the city in western Pakistan that has become a killing ground for Sunni sectarian death squads that hunt [...]
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60 asylum seekers whose boat sunk in route to Australia, with Indonesian authorities still scrambling to launch a co-ordinated rescue effort. The boat was carrying as many as 72 people when it hit rocks off the coast of West Java. According to Indonesian search and rescue agency BASARNAS due to lack of information aerial search [...]
Continue reading …Mohammad Ahmadi’s Story A PERSONAL STORY OF A HAZARA BOY WHO FLED AFGHANISTAN AND THE STORY OF A GENERATION
April 9, 2013 No Comment
by Marina Mogli 1. Mohammad, a Hazara refugee and asylum seeker in Sweden Mohammad’s story starts 23 years ago in Qarabagh, Afghanistan. He is a Hazara, one of the most oppressed ethnic groups of Afghanistan. Accounting for up to one-fifth of Afghanistan’s population, Hazaras have long been branded outsiders. Their current persecution is borne out [...]
Continue reading …World Poetry Day: 324 Poets from 93 Countries Unite to Stop Genocide of Hazara
March 21, 2013 No Comment
324 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as the presidents of the international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 93 countries have chosen to release an open letter to world leaders, this March 21st . They have chosen to observe World Poetry Day by [...]
Continue reading …Amnesty International: Imminent deportation poses grave risk for Hazaras’ safety
March 17, 2013 No Comment
Amnesty International has grave concerns with the Government’s recent move to start returning Hazara asylum seekers to Afghanistan and Pakistan. “The security situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating and we are extremely fearful for their safety should the Government send these asylum seekers back,” said Alex Pagliaro, Amnesty International’s Refugee Spokesperson. “The Government also indicated that [...]
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A refugee activist says the men have been denied due process but the Government is determined to make an example of them and prove that it can forcibly remove people back to Afghanistan. The Immigration department says the men’s claims for refugee status have been denied and they will be forcibly removed and there are [...]
Continue reading …Hazara People International Network’s letter to Australian politicians about the Hazara asylum seekers
December 21, 2012 No Comment
Dear Sir/ Madam We are writing to ask you to support Hazara asylum seekers in Australia. We are deeply concerned about the Hazara asylum seekers’ circumstances, and about the resent reports on Australia’s cooperation with Pakistan’s intelligence agencies to stop Hazaras to leave the country which has been described “questionable and sordid” by Amnesty International. [...]
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Amnesty International says Australia’s reported cooperation with Pakistan’s intelligence agencies to stop Hazara asylum seekers leaving the country is “questionable and sordid”. An investigation by journalist Aubrey Belford quotes Pakistani officials confirming that Australian Federal Police officers have been encouraging a policy of racially profiling people from the Hazara community who they suspect may be [...]
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By Aubrey Belford Once a haven for refugees from Afghanistan, the Pakistani city of Quetta has turned into a deathtrap. Many see escape to Australia as their only hope. For years, the Pakistani city of Quetta has been studded with billboards put up by Australia. When a suicide bomber detonated himself in a Shia Muslim [...]
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