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| Subject: The Hazara people: Leaving is better than staying to face death Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:13 am | |
| I want to talk about my people, the Hazara people. The emigration of Hazara people started about 200 years ago. In the 1890s, the British-backed Amir of Afghanistan, Abdur Rahman Khan, killed 64 per cent of Hazaras, by some accounts, because they were Shiite Muslim and had different faces from those of other nations in Afghanistan.
The Taliban regime also killed many Hazaras for the same reason. After they captured the town of Mazar-e-Sharif in 1998, the Taliban killed 4000 ordinary Hazara villagers in one day.
Under the current President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, it is still going on. One example is the suicide bomb attacks on the Ashura [day of mourning] commemoration in 2011, which killed 150 Hazara Shiites in Kabul.
Because of these problems, people have long emigrated to a safer place.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/leaving-is-better-than-staying-to-face-death-20120819-24gf1.html#ixzz244X3KqS0
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