RASC News Agency: By continuing of the launch of a campaign to recognize the genocide of the Hazaras in 1892-1893, the “Afghanistan National Congress Party” led by Abdul Latif Pedram announced its official support for this campaign.
In a statement, this party said that 400,000 Hazara families were massacred during the rule of Abdul Rahman, the then Emir of Afghanistan.
Latif Pedram, the leader of “Afghanistan National Congress Party” on Monday, September 25, broadcast the official announcement of his party on X social network.
According to this announcement, on September 25 of 1892, the killing of “thousands of thousands” of Hazara people was started by the order of Amir Abdul Rahman.
The Afghanistan National Congress Party has called Abdul Rahman Khan “the vampire emir” and wrote that as a result of his campaign to Uruzgan, “according to Siraj Al-Tawarikh, 400,000 Hazara families were mercilessly massacred, their property and property were looted and their lands were distributed to Pashtun tribes. »
According to this declaration, many Hazara women, girls and young people were “sold” in slave markets in Kabul, Kunduz, Kandahar and Quetta after this campaign.
In recent years, a campaign for the recognition of September 25 of 1892, the day of ordering a massive attack on Hazarestan has been marked as a day of commemoration of the genocide of Hazaras. This year, on the eve of September 25, this campaign has been highlighted once again on social networks.
A number of Hazara activists in this campaign have requested that September 25, the date of issuing the order to attack on Hazarestan, which led to the mass killing of Hazaras and it should be recognized internationally as the anniversary of the beginning of the Hazara genocide.
In recent years, a number of international organizations have paid attention to this issue. Including the Holocaust Memorial Museum, which is based in Washington, the capital of America; in a statement on August 23 of last year, it wrote that Hazara have been subjected to discrimination and even “genocide” for a long time.
A study published in the information base of the United Nations Refugee Agency shows that Afghanistan lost half of its Hazara population in 1893.
According to the information of the book Siraj Al-Tawarikh written by Faiz Mohammad Katab, in those years, in addition to the widespread slaughter of Hazaras as “rebels”, a large number of families of this tribe were forced to migrate and were displaced in the Indian subcontinent, Iran and Central Asia and never returned.
There have also been reports of slave markets heating up inside Afghanistan and some Indo-British cities with Hazara slaves at that time.
Part of the events of Abdul Rahman’s attack on the Hazara areas were recorded in the book Siraj Al-Tawareikh written by Faiz Muhammad Katab, the official court chronicler of Abdul Rahman Khan and his successor Habibullah Khan, and it was printed with the approval of Habibullah Khan.
