Afghanistan: torna l’incubo delle persecuzioni contro gli hazari

About two weeks ago, a number of families-Hazara dominate community- in Daikundi province claimed that Taliban affiliates were trying to seize their lands and personal property. In a video released that time, locals cliamed that taliban fighters ordered people to empty their houses immediately, saying they were living there illegally. Talibans had given people nine days to leave there.

Now, two weeks after that video, nearly 900 Hazara families, evicted from their homes. Gizab district is one of the districts that was recently separated from Uruzgan province and now it is considered as one of Daikundi province. According to local sources, about 2,300 families lived in this district; but after Taliban decision, 400 families were forced to leave their homes in kindir village in Gizab district as test case and 300 families by other vaillages.

Although the province elders says that they were living in Daikundi province for more than 40 years, but after the Taliban took the power, they threatening them to leave their homes. This eviction took place despite the fact that residents had valid legal papers to proving ownership of the lands.

Taliban’s Atrocities is not limited to forced eviction of civilians, people says that Taliban officials have instructed people not to transfer their crops, including wheat, almonds and other crops. They only could transfer clothing and some food.

Why Taliban fighter forced Hazara people in Daikundi to leave their homes?

The issue of forced eviction of Hazara people goes back to the legal dispute of land that resident of Daikundi province have living on for more than 40 years, and now taliban are trying to seize the people’s land by making fake documents.

Residents who were asked to leave by the Taliban said that some “Pashtun tribesman” with the support of Talian fighters claimed ownership of Hazara property.

Tribal elders says that JamhorKhan is the one who claimed the ownership of Hazara people and right now he is Taliban’s deputy governor.

People in other district of Daikundi province also asked to leave their homes by taliban. They ordered people to not transfer their crops.

In shahrestan district of Daikundi province, 12 out of 23 families asked to leave their homes. However, Taliban officials says that the process of of evicting people from Daikundi province has stopped; but credible sources says up to 2,000 families are to be evicted from other fertile areas of Daikundi province.

Residents took refuge in the neighbouring village and the city of Nilli, in Daikundi province. Some other went to Kandahar province and some have reached Kabul.

Families that left homes, have nothing to eat and no money to buy raw materials and bread, as well they have no shelter to stay. A number of Hazara political leaders, plus human right organizatios, have called for immediate assistance to residents of Daikundi province and called on the Taliban government to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the province.

It’s important to say that the Hazara people are an ethnic group, predominantly Shia, who are native to the mountainous region of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan.  They have a long history of persecution and discrimination in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and Pakistan.