World Poetry Day: 324 Poets from 93 Countries Unite to Stop Genocide of Hazara
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 [...]
Mullah Omar Farman Plans to Destroy the Hazara Cultural and Historical Monument of the Buddahs of Bamiyan
March 3, 2012 2 Comments
TRANSLATION OF THE PASHTO TEXT : ISHAQ MOHAMMADI/ ART PHOTO BY NAJIBULLAH MUSAFER Mullah Omar’s Farman to Taliban – A copy of this document (written in Pushto) was secured from Taliban’s Dept of Interior Ministry after US bombing in late 2001.The document is an order/policy by Mullah Omar to the Taliban commanders. Mullah Omar Farman [...]
Continue reading …No Better Subject than “Afshar Massacre” for Angelina Jolie’s New Movie in Afghanistan
February 24, 2012 3 Comments
by Mohammad Amin Wahidi Two months after her first movie’s premiere and worldwide success, as a new director, Angelina Jolie has announced to the media that she has an idea and is writing a script on the Afghanistan Civil War. Her debut feature, “In the Land of Blood and Honey”, a critically acclaimed movie about [...]
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by Nasruddin Hemati On the verge of the US forces withdrawal following a decade of strong presence here, Afghanistan remains unstable, with the government failing to address even some tiny security issues. Instability has grown by the increasing insurgency through new mechanisms put in practice by the resisting militants. No need to say, once the [...]
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Hazara People: a remote control mine explosion by Taliban killed six Hazara civilians of the same family. Mr. Zia a local mechanical technician of Zardalo area of Qarabagh district was killed along with his two children, an uncle, a sister –in- law and a nephew. According to Hazara People collaborators, the mine has been planted [...]
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KABUL, March 9 (Xinhua) — Civilians killed in Afghanistan jumped 15 percent to 2,777 in 2010 from a year earlier, a joint report by Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) and UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) said Wednesday. A total of 2,080 or 75 percent of civilian death toll were attributed to anti-government insurgents, [...]
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News Flash: The Taliban Violate Human Rights The human rights community finally notices the Taliban’s war crimes. By Christopher Hitchens Even in a week that concentrated all eyes on the magnificent courage and maturity of the people of Cairo, a report from Kabul began with what must surely be the most jaw-dropping opening paragraph of [...]
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Even Mother Nature was cruel on the day 15 years ago when rampaging thugs chopped off Marzia’s fingers for a gold ring and shot dead her nine-year-old son when he cried out to object. It was a bone-chillingly cold morning, she recalls, when militia loyal to Pashtun warlord Abdul Rab-Rasoul Sayyaf – now a parliamentarian [...]
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A Hazara woman recounts how her husband was killed in Afshar, west of Kabul. Hundreds of innocent people from Hazara minority were massacred by forces of Sayyaf and Ahmad Shah Massoud in this area in 1993. Date: February 1993 Location: Afshar and Karteh Se, West Kabul. Majority of Hazara residents. (central Afghanistan – Hazarajat). Victims: [...]
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Afshar Massacred by Ahmad shah Masoud and Sayaf in 1993 According to The Guardian, November 16, 2001: “On February 11, 1993, Massoud and Sayyaf’s forces entered the Hazara suburb of Afshar, killing – by local accounts – “up to 1,000 civilians”, beheading old men, women, children and even their dogs, stuffing their bodies down the [...]
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