The Genocide of Hazaras and the Silence of the World
It has been almost two months since the car bomb attack on 8 th May 2021 against Sayed-al-Shohada girls high school in Dash-e-Barchi, a Hazara neighborhood in Kabul. Over 95 killed and more than 200 others were injured, which almost all victims were schoolgirls between the age of 11-18. The attack took place at the hour that students were leaving the school for their homes. The school is located in a largely impoverished Hazara community that faces long-standing discrimination and neglect of their neighborhoods, including lack of security for schools that have often been subject to attacks. After the attack, many figures, diplomatic envoys, the international community, and human rights groups released statements condemning the deadly targeted attack on the school. The Afghanistan Independence Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) called on the concerned countries to support its demands for a credible and transparent investigation under UN auspices and also asked the UN to...