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21s t Novembet\2015.
GENOCIDE OF HAZARA MINORITY AND ITS REPERCUSSION.
First of all, I would like to thank Ms, Rita Izsak, the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority
Issues for giving us the opportunity to put forward the issues affecting the Hazaras as a
minority.
Although, today's provisional agenda was about the criminal justice system and how it has
affected the minorities, please allow me to talk about our ongoing GENOCIDE in Pakistan and
Afghanistan, The Hazaras have been facing the brunt of religious hatred, bigotry and intolerance
in Pakistan and Afghanistan 'which have led to our targeted-killings, mass executions and
assassinations. Let's focus on Pakistani Hazaras first. So far, over 2,000 innocent Hazaras have
been killed in Pakistan and over 4,800 people have become completely disabled due to these
attacks. In the last 16 years, there have been over 250 terrorist attacks on Hazaras but no
perpetrators have ever been apprehended nor have been brought to justice by Pakistani
government. These ongoing killings have compelled them to sell out their properties on
throw-away prices and leave the country with the hope of finding somewhere safer, The
government has deprived them of their civil liberties while the terrorists are roaming around
freely.
Unfortunately, our genocide does not stop there. In Afghanistan, for example, we are facing
much worse situation. The Afghan Hazaras are taken off the passengers buses, identified and
then abducted by terrorist groups for brutal decapitation. Only about a month ago, seven (7)
innocent Hazaras were abducted in Zabul province which included a nine (9) year old children,
three women and three men. They were brutally beheaded about two weeks ago,
On 21st of this month, another unfortunate incident of abduction took place near Kandahar
which included 20 innocent Hazara labourers. Their safety and whereabouts are still unknown.
These relentless incidents have led Hazaras to flee for their lives and thousands of them are
languishing in Turkey, Iran, Indonesia and Australian detention centres.
I would like to request the UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues to exercise the mandate
of the UN and get the following points approved.
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