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SLAVERY
Thousands of Hazara women men, children and girls were sold in the markets of Kabul, Kandahar, Herat and beyond the borders of Afghanistan to India and Russia. Some of them were sold to Hindus in Kandahar even though it was prohibited by Islamic law. According to the Amir’s order, every prisoner was sold at 120 Afghani Rupees per head and the money deposited in the royal treasury. -
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION
It appears from the statements of recent arrivals from the Governor’s camp that the Governor and the force under his command are being greatly harassed by the Hazaras. They add that a Hazara Chief, named Zafar Ata, attacked Fort Rak with a body of horse, and succeeded in plundering and taking away all the ammunition stored there. He also took eighteen sowars of the regular cavalry prisoners. -
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MASS MIGRATION
400,000 Hazara families, about 2 million individuals, were forced to leave their homeland.( Faiz: Vol4/182) Their land and properties were confiscated by the order of the Government and given to the Afghans. As a result of this massacre and persecution hundreds of thousands of Hazaras fled to neighboring countries. It is most painstaking that world powers turned blind eye towards that human catastrophy and massacre’. -
RELIGIOUS PERSECUITION
Amir sent for the influential men of Chandaul and the Hazaras living in Kabul, and told them to abandon the customs observed by the Shias and adopt the principles of the Sunni creed, or to tie red turbans on their heads like the Hindus, so that others might not mistake them for Sunnis. -
RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION
It is credibly reported that the Amir has issued orders that Shias are to attend at the (Sunni) prayers and that (Sunni) Mullahs be appointed at Shia places of worship, in order that Shias may not be permitted to follow the precepts of their worship in their own houses; also that the Amir has directed the Shia places of worship to be sold, and in lieu thereof a place of worship in each quarter of the town is to be provided for the Shias on payment. -
DEATH MARCH
A British lady doctor at the court of Abdur Rahman Dr. Hamilton narrates about the harsh treatment of Afghan soldiers towards innocent Hazaras and their process of enslavement and long DEATH MARCHES towards the slave markets of Kabul.She had direct contact with a Hazara slave girl called Shireen Jan in the court of Amir and gives a much better picture of those horrifying years of war. According to her; -
TORTURE OF THE HAZARAS
Amir’s Afghan soldiers carried out ruthless punishment against Hazara prisoners by the order of the Amir Abdur Rahman.
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executioners wouldgouge out the eyes of live prisoners,
people were thrown alive from a lofty rock of the Asmaii mountain at Kabul men with their hands tied were put in a large sack together with a wild cat.hundreds of Hazaras put in Blackwell where most of them died in a horrifying condition. -
SEXUAL ABUSE OF WOMEN
During the war against Hazara Campaign Afghan soldiers, in order to confiscate weapons, would enter the Hazara houses and make the collection of arms their excuse to rape the Hazara women. In Uruzgan, of 10,000 Afghantroops, some made 11 fortified villages for themselves alone and turned away the inhabitants, while others scattered in different fortified villages and lived with Hazaras. Some soldiers married Hazara women, while others raped women and girls whom they found attractive. -
LAND CONFISCATION
The fertile cultivable lands of the south-west Hazaras were given to Pashtuns by the government. The Pashtun state authorities took up a patronizing role in surrendering the lands and pastures of the Hazaras to various Pashtun nomads and encouraged them to let their flocks loose on the cultivated farmlands of the Hazaras; in the case of disputes, the rural district administrator would support the Pashtun nomads as a rule.(Shafaee:3)