Members of the Afghan Hazara community protested against the genocide of the Hazara people in Toronto, Canada, on January 28, 2024. They condemned the recent suicide bombings in West Kabul who claimed the lives of many Khazars. The protesters also demanded the end of the arrest of the Hazara women by the Taliban and supported the rights of Afghan women to study and work freely.
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On September 1, 2025, New linesA non -governmental organization began its newer reference by examining the situation of the Hazara community in Afghanistan organized by the Taliban. The report makes a legal evaluation of the acts aimed at the community, examining the most recent attacks and the continued situation, by the acquisition of the Taliban in August 2021. Genocide (Genocide Convention).
The report comes three years after the restoration of British MPs that there was a serious risk of genocide against Khazara in Afghanistan. Back in 2022, having made an in -depth research And having testimonies from victims/survivors and experts, the British MPs found that the hazelnut in Afghanistan, as a religious and ethnic minority, are at serious risk of genocide in the hands of the Taliban and IS-KP. This finding was supposed to have attracted the responsibility of all states to protect the stupid and prevent a possible genocide, in accordance with the task of preventing genocide in Article I of the Genocide Convention and in accordance with customary international law. However, these answers did not follow, allowing the Taliban to continue and do so with impunity.
When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021, it significantly influenced the situation that Hazara faced and overturned the 20 -year progress in dealing with the marginalization and discrimination faced by this minority group. The return to the Taliban power has included brutal acts of violence against Khazara throughout Afghanistan and a return to terrorism. In the first half of 2022 he has seen hundreds of members of the Hazara community killed and many more injured as a result of targeted attacks, including the Hazara schools, places of worship and other centers. As the New Lines Institute show shows, this trend has continued in the last three years.
THE reference reveals a reasonable basis Let us believe that Hazara’s targeting in recent years, for which the Taliban and IS-KP/DAESH are primarily claiming responsibility, fulfill the legal criteria for the crime of genocide in accordance with Article II of the Genocide Session, with the attacks on Hazara. (causing conditions calculated to bring about natural disaster). It further deals with evidence of the specific intention required to prove the crime, that is, the intention of destroying the group, in whole or in part.
The exhibition mentions a liturgy of community targeting examples, including attacks on schools, hospitals, worship venues, public transport, workplaces, weddings and other celebrations, peaceful protests, celebrations, sports and entertainment, In relation to this particular intention to destroy, Liverpool’s Lord Alton, the peer in the British body of the Lords and the president of the Hazara research, have shown: “The intention to destroy the Hazara attacks, in whole or in part, is strongly proven by these puffs. History of the persecution dating back to the late 19th century, reflects a cold continuation of violence against this vulnerable group. ”
What now? What if the atrocities are in the genocide? As the report explains, the crimes against Khazara require “legal responsibility for justice and accountability, including the individual criminal responsibility of those responsible and the responsibility of the state and its responsibility in fact Principles of Afghanistan. “Ambassador Beth Van Schack, US Ambassador-in-Great Criminal Justice (2022-2025), added that:” Since the in fact The Afghanistan authorities are involved in the breach of the Genocide Convention, other state parties must act on the duties under the Genocide Convention – to protect and “use all reasonably available to them” to protect Hazaras from further genocidal acts in Afghanistan. Among other things, states could establish proceedings before the International Court of Justice against the Taliban, such as in fact The authorities, for their violations in the Genocide Convention. This recommendation was presented by the British MPs in 2022. In the last three years, there have been no efforts to do so. The question is then – what else should the states be more interested in?
