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 [...]
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270 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as presidents of international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 88 countries have signed an open letter to world leaders, declaring their solidarity with the Hazara people. For more than a century, the Hazara people of [...]
Continue reading …An open letter from World-wide Poets addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, and President of the United States, Barack Obama.
February 9, 2013 1 Comment
Dear Sirs, After more than a century of systematic crimes such as genocide, slavery, sexual abuse, war crimes, and discrimination, being a Hazara still appears to be a crime in Afghanistan and Pakistan. As recently as Thursday, January 10, 2013, more than one-hundred Hazara were killed in an organized terrorist attack on the city of [...]
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BY KEVIN MAIMANN,EDMONTON SUN Dozens gathered in Churchill Square Sunday to protest the killing of Hazara Shias in Pakistan. About 70 people, mostly part of an Edmonton coalition of Shia and Sunni mosques and community organizations, condemned the U.N., international media, and the Pakistani government for inaction on what they call an ongoing genocide. About [...]
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