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The Genocide of Hazaras and the Silence of the World

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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...

Have the Taliban really changed

تصویر
  When the United States (US) started talks with Taliban, there was a wave to change the image of the group. In this narrative, there was an attempt to show that the Taliban have changed since it collapsed in 2001. The aim was to shift the public opinion to accept the deal between the terrorist group and US government, which finally allowed the departure of the US and allies forces from Afghanistan. In parallel to the wave, spokesmen of the terrorist group sought to present that they have changed and will be a responsible actor to the international community and organizations. However, their most recent brutal and violent terrorizing acts are in action as frequently as they were before 2001, when they were in power. Data collected and published by human rights groups on the Taliban showed that their intolerance of dissidents are no different to their past and they have not changed. The terrorist group have frequently attacked liberals, media, civilians and human rights activists an...