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There is a famous story of 40 Hazara girls in Uruzgan committing suicide to escape sex slavery during the persecution. [24] 9,000 Hazara women were enslaved in Kabul alone. [4] 30 mule loads; [25] or roughly over 400 decapitated Hazara heads [N 2] were allegedly sent to Kabul. The Sultan Ahmad Hazara tribe of Uruzgan was in particular severely ...
Significant communities of Hazara people also live in Quetta, Pakistan and in Mashad, Iran, as part of the Hazara and Afghan diasporas. Map of Kabul Province and its surroundings showing the boundaries of the different Hazara tribes in 1893. Between 1888-1893, nearly 60% of the Hazaras were massacred and their land seized by the Pashtuns.
Persecution of Hazara people: Afghanistan-Pakistan: heads of state of Afghanistan, Taliban, Haqqani network, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, ISIL, Pashtuns, Kochi people: 1888–1893 Suppression of 1888–1893 Uprisings of Hazaras: Hazarajat: Afghan army under Abdur Rahman Khan: Thousands [5] [6] to 409,500 Hazaras according to a Hazara author [7 ...
The Hazara lands were distributed among loyalist villagers from nearby non-Hazara communities. The repression following the uprising has been characterized as genocide or ethnic cleansing in the history of modern Afghanistan. [100] [101] [102]
A massive forced displacement happened, especially in Oruzgan and Dey Chopan and continued as lands were confiscated and populations were massacred, expelled or fled. Out of 132,000 families, 10,000 to 15,000 Hazara families fled the country to northern Afghanistan, Mashhad (), and Quetta (), and 7,000 to 10,000 Hazaras submitted to Abdur Rahman, and the rest fought until they were defeated.
Scholarship varies on the definition of genocide employed when analysing whether events are genocidal in nature. [2] The United Nations Genocide Convention, not always employed, defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or ...
A bus carrying pilgrims to Taftan was stopped in Mastung near Quetta, after identifying Hazara passengers they were massacred leaving 26 dead. Three more were shot dead when they were on their way to collect the bodies. [5] [42] September 23: Five more Hazara were casualties in an attack when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a van. [43]
The First Battle of Uruzgan took place in Uruzgan on August 9, 1892 between the Uruzgani Hazaras and the Kingdom of Afghanistan during the famous Hazara Uprisings. [1]When the Afghan forces under the leadership of Brigadier Zabardast Khan were challenged by a force of Uruzgani Hazaras, the Afghan forces were defeated in a fierce battle.