Persecution of Hazaras, the Glossary

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1. 119 relations: ABC News (United States), Abdul Khaliq Hazara (assassin), Abdul Malik Pahlawan, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Abdur Rahman Khan, Abrar Hussain (boxer), Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, Afghanistan, Al Jazeera English, Al-Qaeda, Alan Johnson, Alistair Burt, Amnesty International, Anwar Dangar, Australia, Babrak Karmal, Baghlan Province, Balkhab District, Balochistan, Pakistan, Bamyan, Bamyan Province, Band-e Amir National Park, Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif (1997–1998), BBC News, British Indian Army, British Raj, Casus belli, Chindawol uprising, Dashte Barchi, Dawn (newspaper), Energy Supply Improvement Investment Program (Afghanistan), European Union, First Anglo-Afghan War, Genocidal massacre, Genocide, Government of the United Kingdom, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Hafizullah Amin, Hazara diaspora, Hazara genocide (19th century), Hazarajat, Hazaras, Hezbe Wahdat, Hezbi Islami, Human rights, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Human Rights Watch, Hussain Ali Yousafi, Iain Stewart (politician), Inter-Services Intelligence, ... Expand index (69 more) »

2. Attacks on hospitals in Afghanistan
3. Discrimination in Afghanistan
4. Massacres of Hazara people

ABC News (United States)

ABC News is the news division of the American television network ABC.

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Abdul Khaliq Hazara (assassin)

Abdul Khaliq Hazara (عبدالخالق هزاره), (1916 — December 18, 1933) was a Hazara student who assassinated the King of Afghanistan, Mohammad Nadir Shah, on 8 November 1933, during an award distribution ceremony.

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Abdul Malik Pahlawan

Abdul Malik Pahlawan is an Afghan Uzbek warlord and politician based in Faryab Province in northern Afghanistan.

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Abdul Rasul Sayyaf

Abdulrab Rasul Sayyaf (عبدالرب رسول سیف; born 1946) is an exiled Afghan politician and former mujahideen commander.

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Abdur Rahman Khan

Abdur Rahman Khan (Pashto/Dari: عبدالرحمن خان.) (between 1840 and 1844 – 1 October 1901) also known by his epithets, The Iron Amir, was Amir of Afghanistan from 1880 to his death in 1901.

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Abrar Hussain (boxer)

Abrar Hussain (ابرار حسین; February 9, 1961 – June 16, 2011) was a professional Pakistani welterweight and Light-middleweight boxer.

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Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission

The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) (Dari:کمیسیون مستقل حقوق بشر افغانستان, د افغانستان د بشري حقونو خپلواک کميسيون) is a national human rights institution that was created during the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, dedicated to the promotion, protection, and monitoring of human rights and the investigation of human rights abuses.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.

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Al Jazeera English

Al Jazeera English (AJE; lit) is a 24-hour English-language news channel operating under Al Jazeera Media Network, which is partially funded by the government of Qatar.

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Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda is a pan-Islamist militant organization led by Sunni Jihadists who self-identify as a vanguard spearheading a global Islamist revolution to unite the Muslim world under a supra-national Islamic caliphate.

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Alan Johnson

Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Skills from 2006 to 2007, Secretary of State for Health from 2007 to 2009, Home Secretary from 2009 to 2010, and Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2010 to 2011.

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Alistair Burt

Alistair James Hendrie Burt (born 25 May 1955) is a British politician who served as Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Bedfordshire from 2001 until 2019.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Anwar Dangar

Anwar Dangar was a commander from Shakar-Darrah (Shakar Dara), which is located approximately 25 kilometres north of Kabul, and was an ally of Burhanuddin Rabbani's Jamiat-e-Islami.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Babrak Karmal

Babrak Karmal (Dari/Pashto:; born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.

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Baghlan Province

Baghlan (Baġlān) is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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Balkhab District

Balkhab (بلخاب) is a district of Sar-e Pol Province, Afghanistan.

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Balochistan, Pakistan

Balochistan (بلۏچستان; بلوچستان) is a province of Pakistan.

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Bamyan

Bamyan (بامیان), also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian, is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan.

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Bamyan Province

Bamyan Province, also spelled Bamiyan, Bāmīān or Bāmyān (ولایت بامیان), is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan with the city of Bamyan as its center, located in central parts of Afghanistan.

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Band-e Amir National Park

Band-e Amir National Park (پارک ملی بند امیر; د امیر بند ملي پارک) is located in the central Bamyan Province of Afghanistan.

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Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif (1997–1998)

The Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif were a part of the Afghan Civil War and took place in 1997 and 1998 between the forces of Abdul Malik Pahlawan and his Hazara allies, Junbish-e Milli-yi Islami-yi Afghanistan, and the Taliban. Persecution of Hazaras and Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif (1997–1998) are massacres of Hazara people.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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British Indian Army

The Indian Army during British rule, also referred to as the British Indian Army, was the main military force of the British Indian Empire until 1947.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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Casus belli

A casus belli is an act or an event that either provokes or is used to justify a war.

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Chindawol uprising

The Chindawol uprising was a failed insurrection that took place on June 23, 1979 in the Chindawol district in the old city of Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Dashte Barchi

Dashte Barchi (دشت برچی) also known as Barchi (برچی) is a settlement located in western Kabul, Afghanistan.

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Dawn (newspaper)

Dawn is a Pakistani English-language newspaper that was launched in British India by Jinnah in 1941.

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Energy Supply Improvement Investment Program (Afghanistan)

The Energy Supply Improvement Investment Program is a proposed electric power transmission link intended to supply Afghanistan with power from other Central Asian countries, BBC Monitoring, 2016-05-16, accessed 2016-07-24 as well as interconnecting the ten separate power grids within Afghanistan.

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European Union

The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe.

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First Anglo-Afghan War

The First Anglo-Afghan War (ده انګريز افغان اولني جګړه) was fought between the British Empire and the Emirate of Kabul from 1838 to 1842.

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Genocidal massacre

The term genocidal massacre was introduced by Leo Kuper (1908–1994) to describe incidents which have a genocidal component but are committed on a smaller scale when they are compared to genocides such as the Rwandan genocide.

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Genocide

Genocide is the intentional destruction of a people, either in whole or in part. Persecution of Hazaras and Genocide are Racism.

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Government of the United Kingdom

The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker.

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Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin (حفيظ الله امين; 1 August 192927 December 1979) was an Afghan communist head of state, who served in that position for a little over three months, from September 1979 until his assassination.

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Hazara diaspora

The Hazara people are an ethnic group who are mostly from Afghanistan, primarily from the central regions of Afghanistan, known as Hazarajat, they established a large diaspora that consists of many communities in different countries around the world as part of the later Afghan diaspora.

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Hazara genocide (19th century)

The Hazara genocide occurred in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the Afghanistan Emirate signed the Treaty of Gandamak. Persecution of Hazaras and Hazara genocide (19th century) are Discrimination in Afghanistan and massacres of Hazara people.

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Hazarajat

Hazarajat (Hazārajāt), also known as Hazaristan (Hazāristān) is a mostly mountainous region in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Kuh-e Baba mountains in the western extremities of the Hindu Kush.

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Hazaras

The Hazaras (Hazāra; Āzrə) are an ethnic group and a principal component of the population of Afghanistan.

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Hezbe Wahdat

Hezb-e Wahdat-e Islami Afghanistan (حزب وحدت اسلامی افغانستان, "the Islamic Unity Party of Afghanistan"), shortened to Hezbe Wahdat (حزب وحدت, "the Unity Party"), is an Afghan political party founded in 1989.

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Hezbi Islami

Hezb-e-Islami (also Hezb-e Islami, Hezb-i-Islami, Hezbi-Islami, Hezbi Islami), lit. Islamic Party, was an Islamist organization that was commonly known for fighting the Communist Government of Afghanistan and their close ally the Soviet Union.

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Human rights

Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,.

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Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (ماموریہ برائے انسانی حقوق پاکستان) (HRCP) is an independent, democratic non-profit organisation.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Hussain Ali Yousafi

Hussain Ali Yousafi (Persian/Urdu: حسین علی یوسفی) was an ethnic Hazara politician in Balochistan, Pakistan.

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Iain Stewart (politician)

Iain Aitken Stewart (born 18 September 1972) is a British Conservative Party politician and former accountant.

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Inter-Services Intelligence

The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI; بین الخدماتی استخبارات|bayn al-khidmati estekhbarat) is the largest and best-known component of the Pakistani intelligence community.

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Iran

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.

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Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan

The Islamic Dawah Organization of Afghanistan (د اسلامي دعوت تنظيمافغانستان, تنظیمدعوت اسلامی افغانستان, Tanzim-e Da'wat-e Islami-ye Afghanistan) is a political party in Afghanistan led by Abdul Rasul Sayyaf.

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Islamic Republic of Afghanistan

The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was a presidential republic in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2021.

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Islamic State

The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist group and an unrecognised quasi-state.

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Islamic State of Afghanistan

The Islamic State of Afghanistan was established by the Peshawar Accords of 26 April 1992.

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Isma'ilism

Isma'ilism (translit) is a branch or sect of Shia Islam.

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Jihad

Jihad (jihād) is an Arabic word which literally means "exerting", "striving", or "struggling", especially with a praiseworthy aim.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Kafir

Kafir (kāfir; كَافِرُون, كُفَّار, or كَفَرَة; كَافِرَة; كَافِرَات or كَوَافِر) is an Arabic term in Islam which refers to a person who disbelieves the God in Islam, denies his authority, rejects the tenets of Islam, or simply is not a Muslim—one who does not believe in the guidance of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

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Karim Khalili

Karim Khalili (کریمخلیلی; born 1950) is an Afghan politician serving as leader of the Hezb-e Wahdat Islami Afghanistan party.

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Khalq

Khalq (خلق) was a faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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Khas Uruzgan District

Khas Uruzgan (ارزگان خاص., also spelled Khas Urozgan) is a district of Urozgan Province, Afghanistan.

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Kholm, Afghanistan

Kholm or Khulm (Dari/Pashto: خلم), formerly known as Tashqurghan (Dari/Uzbek: تاشقرغان), is a town in Samangan Province of northern Afghanistan, 60 km east of Mazar-i-Sharif one-third of the way to Kunduz.

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Khorasan province

Khorasan (استان خراسان; also transcribed as Khurasan, Xorasan and Khorassan), also called Traxiane during Hellenistic and Parthian times, was a province in northeastern Iran until September 2004, when it was divided into three new provinces: North Khorasan, South Khorasan, and Razavi Khorasan.

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Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ; لشکر جھنگوی, Army of Jhangvi), is a Deobandi supremacist, terrorist and militant organisation based in Afghanistan.

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Law enforcement in Pakistan

Law enforcement in Pakistan (ادارہ ہائی نفاذِ قانون، پاکستان) is one of the three main components of the criminal justice system of Pakistan, alongside the judiciary and the prisons.

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List of heads of state of Afghanistan

This article lists the heads of state of Afghanistan since the foundation of the first modern Afghan state, the Hotak Empire, in 1709.

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List of massacres against Hazaras

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred against Hazaras, an ethnic group who make up the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan.

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Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton

Major General John Mark Lancaster, Baron Lancaster of Kimbolton, (born 12 May 1970) is a British Conservative Party politician, a Member of the House of Lords and a British Army reserve officer, who has served as Director Reserves since October 2023.

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Mashhad

Mashhad (مشهد) is the second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran.

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Mazar-i-Sharif

Mazar-i-Sharīf (Dari and مزار شریف), also known as Mazar-e Sharīf or simply Mazar, is the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan by population, with an estimated 500,207 residents in 2021.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Mohammad Nadir Shah

Mohammad Nadir Shah (Persian and محمد نادر شاه; born Mohammad Nadir Khan; 9 April 1883 – 8 November 1933) was King of Afghanistan from 15 October 1929 until his assassination in November 1933.

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Muhammad Mohaqiq

Haji Muhammad Mohaqiq (حاجی محمد محقق; born 26 July 1955 in Balkh) is an Afghan politician who served as a member of the Afghanistan Parliament.

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Mujahideen

Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah).

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North America

North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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Pakistan Army

The Pakistan Army, commonly known as the Pak Army (پاک فوج|translit.

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Parcham

Parcham (Pashto and Dari: پرچم) was the more moderate socialist faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) led by Afghan communist politician Babrak Karmal.

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Pashtuns

Pashtuns (translit), also known as Pakhtuns, or Pathans, are a nomadic, pastoral, Eastern Iranic ethnic group primarily residing in northwestern Pakistan and southern and eastern Afghanistan. They historically were also referred to as Afghans until the 1970s after the term's meaning had become a demonym for members of all ethnic groups in Afghanistan.

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Persecution of Hazaras in Quetta

The persecution of Hazaras in Quetta, is a series of ethnic or religious motivated attacks on Hazaras in Quetta, Pakistan.

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Presidency armies

The presidency armies were the armies of the three presidencies of the East India Company's rule in India, later the forces of the British Crown in India, composed primarily of Indian sepoys.

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Presidency of Hamid Karzai

The Karzai administration was the government of Afghanistan under President Hamid Karzai, who became the head of state of Afghanistan in December 2001 after the Taliban government was overthrown.

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Puli Khumri

Puli Khumrī (پل خمری), also spelled Pul-i-Khumri or Pol-e Khomri, is a city in northern Afghanistan.

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Quetta

Quetta (کوئٹہ, ko'eṭa) is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan.

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Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without their consent.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Rita Borsellino

Rita Borsellino (2 June 1945 – 15 August 2018) was an Italian Sicilian anti-Mafia activist, politician and, between 2009 and 2014, a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Democratic Party.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Sayed Askar Mousavi

Sayed Askar Mousavi (سید عسکر موسوی) is a writer and novelist from Afghanistan.

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Second Anglo-Afghan War

The Second Anglo-Afghan War (Dari: جنگ دومافغان و انگلیس, د افغان-انګرېز دويمه جګړه) was a military conflict fought between the British Raj and the Emirate of Afghanistan from 1878 to 1880, when the latter was ruled by Sher Ali Khan of the Barakzai dynasty, the son of former Emir Dost Mohammad Khan.

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September 2010 Quetta bombing

The September 2010 Quetta bombing occurred on 3 September 2010 in Quetta, Pakistan.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Shukria Tabassum

Shukria Tabassum (شکریه تبسم) was a Hazara victim killed in the 2015 Zabul massacre in Zabul, Afghanistan.

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Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

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Sultan Ali Keshtmand

Sultan Ali Keshtmand (سلطان‌علی کشتمند; born May 22, 1935, in Kabul), sometimes transliterated Kishtmand, was an Afghan communist politician, belonging to the Parcham faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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Sunni Islam

Sunni Islam is the largest branch of Islam, followed by 85–90% of the world's Muslims, and simultaneously the largest religious denomination in the world.

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Tabassum movement

The Tabassum movement (جنبش تبسم) was a grassroots protest movement in Afghanistan that held several protests in Kabul and other Afghan cities in mid-November 2015, following the execution by an armed opposition group of nine-year-old Shukria Tabassum and six other Hazaras around 9 November 2015.

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Takfir

Takfir (translit) is an Arabic and Islamic term which denotes excommunication from Islam of one Muslim by another, i.e. accusing another Muslim to be an apostate.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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The New Humanitarian

The New Humanitarian, previously known as IRIN News, or Integrated Regional Information Networks News, is an independent, non-profit news agency.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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Universal suffrage

Universal suffrage or universal franchise ensures the right to vote for as many people bound by a government's laws as possible, as supported by the "one person, one vote" principle.

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Uruzgan Province

Uruzgan (Pashto:; Dari), also spelled as Urozgan or Oruzgan, is one of the thirty-four provinces of Afghanistan.

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Wahhabism

Wahhabism (translit) is a reformist religious movement within Sunni Islam, based on the teachings of 18th-century Hanbali cleric Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab.

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War crime

A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the command structure who orders any attempt to committing mass killings including genocide or ethnic cleansing, the granting of no quarter despite surrender, the conscription of children in the military and flouting the legal distinctions of proportionality and military necessity.

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Western Europe

Western Europe is the western region of Europe.

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Yakawlang District

Yakawlang (یکاولنگ) is district located in the northwestern part of Bamyan Province.

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Zabul Province

Zabul (Pashto/Dari) is one of the 34 provinces of Afghanistan, located in the south of the country.

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1964 Constitution of Afghanistan

The 1964 Constitution of Afghanistan was the supreme law of the Kingdom of Afghanistan from 1964 to 1973, when it was annulled following a coup d'état though parts of the constitution were restored by future governments from 2002 to 2004 and from 2021 to 2022.

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2003 Quetta mosque bombing

On 4 July 2003, 53 Hazara Shias were killed and at least 65 others were injured when a mosque was attacked during the Friday prayer in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan.

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2004 Quetta Ashura massacre

The 2004 Quetta Ashura massacre was a terrorist attack on 2 March 2004 during an Ashura procession in the southwestern city of Quetta, Pakistan. Persecution of Hazaras and 2004 Quetta Ashura massacre are massacres of Hazara people.

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2010 Afghan parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Afghanistan on 18 September 2010 to elect members of the House of the People (Wolesi Jirga).

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2011 Hazara Town shooting

2011 Hazara Town shooting refers to a massacre of Hazara people on 6 May 2011 in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan which left 8 dead and at least 15 wounded. Persecution of Hazaras and 2011 Hazara Town shooting are massacres of Hazara people.

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2011 Mastung bus shooting

The 2011 Mastung bus shooting was an armed attack on 20 September 2011 on a bus traveling in Mastung District near the city of Quetta in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. Persecution of Hazaras and 2011 Mastung bus shooting are massacres of Hazara people.

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See also

Attacks on hospitals in Afghanistan

• 2021 Kabul hospital attack
• Persecution of Hazaras

Discrimination in Afghanistan

• Anti-Pashtun sentiment
• Hazara genocide (19th century)
• Persecution of Hazaras
• Racism in Afghanistan

Massacres of Hazara people

• 17 August 2019 Kabul bombing
• 2004 Quetta Ashura massacre
• 2011 Hazara Town shooting
• 2011 Mastung bus shooting
• 2015 Zabul massacre
• 2021 Kabul school bombing
• 22 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombing
• Afshar Operation
• April 2022 Kabul school bombing
• Battles of Mazar-i-Sharif (1997–1998)
• Explosions on 21 April 2022 in Afghanistan
• Hazara genocide (19th century)
• July 2016 Kabul bombing
• Mundarakht massacre
• November 2023 Kabul bombing
• Persecution of Hazaras

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hazaras

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