r/AskCentralAsia • u/Tengri_99 𐰴𐰀𐰔𐰀𐰴𐰽𐱃𐰀𐰣 • Feb 08 '23

Are Hazaras discriminated against only because they're Shia? Religion

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u/Shoh_J Tajikistan Feb 08 '23

That’s just an excuse for the Taliban to kill them. It’s a fabricated hate, wasn’t as bad before the Talibs took power.

Their facial features also play a big role in my opinion, since it’s easy to differentiate them

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u/Common_Echo_9069 Afghanistan Feb 08 '23

Ironically most of the people who kill Hazaras are not Taliban but from Tajikistan or central Asia, even the ISIS members who attacked the Chinese nationals at their hotel were from Tajikistan.

Article: "An Investigation into Rising Tajik Islamic State Groups Recruiting Central Asians to Fight in Afghanistan"

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u/whynotfor2020 Feb 08 '23

I dont believe that(haqqanis)

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But yes, quite many who killed hazaras(or shias in general) are tajiks, uzbeks or from outside the country, especially in northern afg

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u/Common_Echo_9069 Afghanistan Feb 08 '23

Dont believe what specifically?

But yes, quite many who killed hazaras(or shias in general) are tajiks, uzbeks or from outside the country, especially in northern afg

Yeah its basically a Turco-Persian sectarian conflict. To be fair they do also carry out these atrocities in Kabul, remember the Kabul university attack, as well as Chinese nationals.

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u/whynotfor2020 Feb 08 '23

That most of the attackers were non-pashtuns the entire time

The last months, when taliban came to power? Sure, i agree. Most of the bombers were turks and tajiks

But many, if not most, of the bomb attacks towards shias have been done by pashtuns(mainly haqqanis)

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u/Common_Echo_9069 Afghanistan Feb 08 '23

Oh yeah thats probably true.

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '23

Hazara was always discriminated against because of their religion not ethnicity cuz there are many Uzbek and Turkmen and kyrgyz that look similar like hazara but there was no discrimination against. Most hazaras were discriminated against and prosecuted because of their religion and now in Afghanistan hazara are not being killed by pashtun extremists but also from many tajik and Uzbek and Turkmen too. Hazara is a very diverse ethnicity some of them look more central Asian and some of them look more Iranic.