List of massacres against Hazara people

The following is a list of massacres that have occurred against Hazara people, who are overwhelmingly Twelver Shia Muslims and make up the third largest ethnic group in Afghanistan:[1][2][3][4]

Name Date Location Attacker(s) Deaths Notes
Persecution of Hazara people from Abdur Rahman Khan era till now Afghanistan-Pakistan heads of state of Afghanistan, Taliban, Haqqani network, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, ISIL, Pashtuns, Kochi people
Afshar Operation February 11–12, 1993 Afshar district,west Kabul Shura-e Nazar, Islamic State of Afghanistan, Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan, Islamic Movement of Afghanistan indeterminate To counter the shelling, government forces attacked Afshar in order to capture the positions of Wahdat and its leader Mazari, and to consolidate parts of the city controlled by the government.The operation became an urban war zone, when Sayyaf's Ittehad-i Islami forces and Massoud's Jamaat-e-Islami forces committed "repeated human butchery"[5] turning against the Shia Muslims.[6]
The massacre of Hazaras in Mazar-i-Sharif July 1998 Mazar-i-Sharif-Balkh Province Taliban, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin Approx 2000 Taliban forces by aid of Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin attacked to vast number of Hazaras, after arriving to Mazar-i-Sharif[7]
The massacre of Hazaras in Sar-e Pol Province Between 1999 and 2000 Sar-e Pol Province Taliban indeterminate
The massacre of Hazaras in Zabul Province June 25, 2010 Zabul Province Taliban 9 For collaborating with the government and the spying, Taliban committed incredibly massacre of Hazaras
2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings December 6, 2011 Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul, Kandahar Lashkar-e-Jhangvi 78 killed and more than 150 wounded
The massacre of Hazaras in Jalrez District July 2, 2015 Jalrez District, Maidan Wardak Province Taliban by Pashtuns supporting 27 killed and 3 wounded
July 2016 Kabul bombing July 23, 2016 Dehmazang Square, Kabul Attributed to ISIL more than 80 killed and more than 231 wounded
The massacre of Hazaras in Sakhi Shrine October 11, 2016 Mosque of Sakhi Shrine, Kabul Haqqani network, ISIL Approx 18 killed and more than 58 wounded
2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings October 12, 2016 Balkh Province Attributed to ISIL Approx 14 killed and more than 70 wounded
November 2016 Kabul suicide bombing November 21, 2016 Baqer-ul Ulom mosque, Kabul Attributed to ISIL Approx 32 killed and more than 64 wounded
2017 Herat mosque attack August 1, 2017 adwadia mosque, Herat indeterminate Approx 32 killed and more than 70 wounded
2017 Mirza Olang village attack August 1, 2017 Mirza Olang village, Sar-e Pol Province ISIL and Taliban together Approx 50 killed
2017 Imam Zaman mosque attack August 25, 2017 Kabul ISIL and Taliban together 28 killed and 50 wounded
2018 Khas Urozgan District attack October 27, 2018 Khas Urozgan District, Urozgan Province Taliban together 70 killed and indeterminate wounded
2021 Coal mine attack January 3, 2021 Bolan District, Balochistan ISIS 11 killed[8]

See also

References
  1. Dupree, L. (2006). AFGHANISTAN [iv. Ethnography] (Online ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica.
  2. "Afghanistan: 31,822,848 (July 2014 est.) @ 9% (2014)". The World Factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved July 17, 2015.
  3. Hyder, Kamal (November 12, 2011). "Hazara community finds safe haven in Peshawar". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved November 12, 2011.
  4. "COUNTRY PROFILE: AFGHANISTAN" (PDF). Library of Congress Country Studies. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  5. "IV. Culpability". Blood-Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan’s Legacy of Impunity (Report). Human Rights Watch. 2006.
  6. Anderson, John Lee. The Lion's Grave (November 26, 2002 ed.). Atlantic Books. p. 224. ISBN 1-84354-118-1.
  7. "قتل‌عام هزاره‌ها توسط طالبان در مزار شریف به روایت پروژه عدالت افغانستان" [Hazaras massacre by Taliban in Mazar-e-Sharif according to Afghan Justice Project]. www.hazarapeople.com (in Persian). Retrieved 17 November 2018.
  8. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/4/pakistani-hazara-families-refuse-to-bury-dead-after-attack
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