Alwaght | News & Analysis Website

Editor's Choice

News

Most Viewed

Day Week Month

In Focus

Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
New node

New node

Map of  Latest Battlefield Developments in Syria and Iraq on
alwaght.net
News

Taliban Evicted Thousands of Hazaras from Homes in Afghanistan: Report

Sunday 24 October 2021
Taliban Evicted Thousands of Hazaras from Homes in Afghanistan: Report

Alwaght- Taliban have forcibly evicted thousands of people, mostly from Shiite Hazara community, in several provinces across Afghanistan in what appears to be collective punishment, illegal under international law, Human Rights Watch has warned.

The Guardian cited the group as saying that that Taliban and associated militias evicted many Hazara families as well as people associated with the former government, from five provinces including Kandahar, Helmand and Uruzgan in the south, Daikundi in the center, and the northern province of Balkh.

Since August, when the Taliban came to power, many of the people have been told by the group to leave their homes and farms, it said.

In many cases, they were told to leave with just a few days’ notice and without any opportunity to prove their legal ownership, it added.

Some were reportedly told that if they did not comply with orders to leave, they “had no right to complain about the consequences”. 

According to the paper, the Taliban are forcibly evicting Hazaras and others on the basis of ethnicity or political opinion to reward Taliban supporters.

The evictions come just before winter, which in much of Afghanistan brings extreme cold, and in the middle of the harvest, which rural families rely on to pay off a year of debts and stock up on food for the year ahead.

The Hazara people are an ethnic group, predominantly Shia, who are native to the mountainous region of Hazarajat in central Afghanistan and make up about 9 percent of the country’s total population of 40 million people.

They have a long history of persecution and discrimination by successive Afghan governments going back over 100 years and mass killings and other serious human rights violations by Taliban forces in the 1990s.

International law prohibits forced evictions, defined as the permanent or temporary removal of individuals, families, or communities against their will from their homes or land, without access to appropriate forms of legal or other protection.

The report said the forced evictions in Afghanistan are taking place at a time of record internal displacement driven by drought, economic hardship, and conflict “with 665,000 people newly displaced in 2021, even before the Taliban takeover, bringing the total nationwide to about 4 million.”

The largest displacements have taken place in 15 villages in Daikundi and Uruzgan provinces, where the Taliban evicted at least 2,800 Hazara residents in September. The families relocated to other districts, leaving their belongings and crops behind.

One former resident was quoted by the Guardian as saying that “after the Taliban takeover, we received a letter from the Taliban informing us that we should leave our houses because the lands are in dispute".

"A few representatives went to the district officials to ask for an investigation but around five of them have been arrested." 

Taliban officials claimed the evictions were based on a court order, but evicted residents assert that they have owned the land since the 1970s.

Disputes over conflicting claims originate from the Taliban’s first ruling from the 1996 to 2001, when the United States invaded the country and toppled the militant-run government. 

 

Tags :

Afghanistan Taliban Hazara Eviction

Comments
Name :
Email :
* Text :
Send

Gallery

Photo

Film

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies

Farmers in Poland are on the streets again to protest EU agricultural policies