: The bombing of a Kabul school is a sign of the coming violence against the Hazaras in Afghanistan #IndiaNEWS In Afghanistan, explosions in western Kabul’s Sayed-ul-Shuhada high school killed over

The bombing of a Kabul school is a sign of the coming violence against the Hazaras in Afghanistan #IndiaNEWS
In Afghanistan, explosions in western Kabul’s Sayed-ul-Shuhada high school killed over 60 people and left more than 150 injured last week. Most of the victims were young girls, aged 13 years to 18 years, who were attending the afternoon shift of the school that catered exclusively to the Shia Hazara community in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban’s condemnation of the attack was, to my mind, plausible though their claim that it was the handiwork of the militant Islamic State group working in concert with the Afghan government was clearly an attempt to hold the government responsible and perhaps understandable as a riposte to the gove0rnment’s claim that the Taliban were responsible.While the Taliban did not carry out this attack, there is no doubt that given their Deobandi and Salafi beliefs they regard the Hazaras as heretics. What is even more tragic is that not just the Taliban but every ethnic or religious community in Afghanistan perceives the Hazaras in the same way.Marginalised groupThe Hazaras constitute around 9% of the Afghan population though some claim a much larger percentage. They are theoretically descendants of the Changez Khan Mongols who settled in Afghanistan during the Mongol forays into South Asia. From the start, however, it seems that...Read more

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