‘Hell on Earth’: Inside Quetta’s Hazara community

‘Hell on Earth’: Inside Quetta’s Hazara community

BBC World Service: Mobeen Azhar [ April 30, 2013] | For years Quetta in Pakistan has rarely been visited by foreign media organisations, as it is considered too dangerous. Now a World Service investigation has uncovered the reality of life for the city’s persecuted Hazara Shia community in what some describe as “hell on earth”. On 10 […]

Massacre in Mazar Sharif – 2

Eyewitness Testimonies conducted by our Hazara Sources of the Killings in Mazar Sharif, Afghanistan August 8, 1998 1 – MAZAR, HAZARA,Originally from DARYA TURKMAN Car spare parts dealer, living in Saidabad. Family living in Iran came to Pakistan through kunduz and kabul. Narrates: “On Saturday 8th August I was in the center of Mazar. We […]

Massacre in Mazar Sharif

  Summary: [1] This report documents the massacre of civilians and other serious breaches of international humanitarian law committed by the Taliban in Afghanistan in August, 1998. The incident, which occurred in Mazar-i Sharif, a city in northern Afghanistan, represents one of the single worst examples of civilian killings in Afghanistan’s twenty-year war where At […]

Chehl Dukhtaro

Chehl Dukhtaro

Chehl Dukhtaro (the 40 girls) is the famous legendary story of the 40 Hazara daughters that committed suicide rather then handing themselves over to the forces of the Pushtun ruler of Kabul, Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, during 1890’s genocide of Hazaras in Hazarajat (current day Afghanistan). Artist: Hasan Ali Hatif The Hazaras of Uruzgan put […]