KABUL: School and demonstration bombed, the hospital targeted and commuting was ambushed: Over the years, the Hazara community has suffered the hardest attack in Afghanistan.
Now, with the Taliban back in control, the Shiite Muslim group, which is the majority of worrying about the Sunni Hardliners can return to them – just as they did during their last regime in the 1990s.
And even when the Taliban promised a softer government at this time, a statue of a leading Hazara leader was damaged just a few days after the Islamist returned to power.
The following is a brief history of the community: originating from the country’s middle plateau, Hazaras is believed to track their lineage from the Mongol Khan Genghis invaders who searched Afghanistan in the 13th century.
Consisting of 10 to 20 percent of the 38 million countries, Hazaras had been marginalized because of their faith in a country that was split by the deep division.
With some estimates, almost half of the population Hazara was abolished at the end of the 19th century, with many who were then enslaved during the conquest of their traditional homeland by Pashtuns, the largest ethnic group in the country.
For centuries, groups have experienced slavery, abuse of religious and economic, and the displacement and cleaning of ethnic.
They have also been targeted with various different groups over the past four decades of conflict, including malignant shootings of their area.
Hazara militia fighters were accused of doing their own atrocities during the civil war which followed the withdrawal of the Soviet army in the late 1980s.
During the takeover of the Taliban earth from the country in the late 1990s, thousands of Hazara was believed to have been slaughtered by militants.
Hazara formed a large portion of the State Shiite minority, which was historically hated by Sunni hardlines who consider the Heretics Sect.
The group was also accused of being too close to allies to neighboring Iran, and tens of thousands had moved for years as economic migrants mostly rude work.
Thousands of Hazara were trained by Iranian security forces and were deployed by Shia militia in the Syrian civil war over the past decade.
Last year, Iran’s foreign minister was named Hazara militia fighters “the best strength with a military background” which could be used against Islamic groups in Afghanistan.
Several groups benefited from the Order formed by the US which was overthrown in 2001 from the Taliban as much as Hazara.
They can put their children in school – including their daughters – and enter the political scene and labor in an unprecedented amount.
But the profit remains weak.
The group took a burden to increase violence because the commission bomber of the Islamic state targeted their mosques, schools, demonstrations and hospitals in the pocket of Hazara Kabul Barat Dasht-e-Barchi, killing hundreds of people.
Worried they would be slaughtered when international troops came out of Afghanistan this summer, several in the community had begun to prepare – with small militias based in Wardak Province and train Hazaras to fight.
A few days after the Taliban returned to power, a statue of a leading Hazara leader in Bamiyan – where the famous Buddha was also destroyed two decades ago – beheaded.
The incident spurred fears that guerrillas still hold grudges against the community, and that they could take action again soon.
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Hazara Afghanistan, a long-term minority that lives in fear of the Taliban
