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The Hazara people [5] and surrounding peoples use the names "Hazarajat" or "Hazaristan" to identify the historic Hazara lands. "Hazarajat" is a compound of "Hazara" and the Persian suffix "jat", [6] which is used to make words associated with land in the south, central and west Asia [7] [need quotation to verify] and "Hazaristan" is a compound of "Hazara" and the Persian suffix ـستان ...
Hazara genocide (19th century) Over 60% of the Hazara population of Hazarajat were killed and some displaced. [3] The Hazara genocide occurred in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the Afghanistan Emirate signed the Treaty of Gandamak. Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman set out to bring the Turkistan, Hazaristan, and Kafiristan regions ...
The siege of Hazarajat began in November 1996 and ended in May–July 1996 by the moto [clarification needed] of ethnic cleansing of the Hazaras [2] it ended by anti-Taliban uprisings the uprisings were inspired by the revolt in Mazar-i-Sharif In ten weeks of fighting between May and July, the Taliban suffered over 3,000 killed or wounded, and some 3,600 became POWs, while 250 Pakistanis had ...
Subsequently, the Pashtuns garrisoned in Hazarajat, treated the local Hazaras as inferiors, and often committed arbitrary acts of cruelty and brutality against them. This caused great unrest and a deepening hatred between the Hazaras and their Pashtun rulers, causing the Hazaras to reach their tipping point in 1892. [35]
9. For collaborating with the government and the spying, Taliban committed incredibly massacre of Hazaras. December 6, 2011. 2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings. Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul, Kandahar. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. 78 killed and more than 150 wounded. July 2, 2015. The massacre of Hazaras in Jalrez District.
History. The Hazaras have encountered intense persecution for centuries. In the late 1800s, much of the Hazarajat, their mountainous homeland in central Afghanistan, was seized by Pashtun and other tribes. This, together with the more recent Soviet invasion in 1979 prompted mass exodus.
They are one of the largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan, primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan. Hazaras also form significant minority communities in Pakistan, mainly in Quetta, and in Iran, primarily in Mashhad. They speak the Dari and Hazaragi dialects of Persian.
Genocide, Ethnic cleansing, Anti-Shi'ism, and Colonization [2] The 1888–1893 Hazara uprisings ( mostly Claimed by Pashtuns) or genocide and displacement of Hazaras occurred in the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Afghan War when the Afghan Emirate signed the Treaty of Gandamak. Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman set out to bring the Turkistan, Hazaristan ...