The international community, human rights organizations, and world media remained silent on the human crimes of the Taliban in Panjshir and Andarab, and indeed of all Tajiks, in the cities, especially in Kabul, committed before the eyes of dozens of foreign and international organizations. Now they are using these crimes as an instrument of pressure on the Taliban - for their own political gain.
Today they are again silent before a new human crime - the massacre of the Khazaras, which is taking place today in Balkhab. But at the same time, millions of dollars are being given to earthquake victims in the southern Pashtun provinces of Khost and Paktia to once again benefit politically from the Taliban.
The list below is incomplete but is clear evidence of the genocide of Hazaras by the Taliban in Balkhab, Saripul Province, in central Afghanistan. Will this crime against humanity awaken the feelings of the international community or not? Do human rights organizations and “global” media react to these crimes the way they reacted to the tragedies in Ukraine?
This report was written by Gholam Husain Nazari, a Hazara social activist.
THE LIST OF THE BALKHAB MARTYRS IDENTIFIED AND BURIED TO THE PRESENT:
1 - Sayed Husein son of Sayyid Abbas, 58 years old, shepherd, Qalagak village
2 - Sayed Azim son of Sayed Nur, 82 years old, worker, Takhshar village
3 - Sayed Aliagha son of Sayed Muhammad Husein, 22 years old, worker, Takhshar village
4 - Sayed Ali son of Sayed Reza, 21 years old, worker, Takhshar village
5 - Khalifa Muqaddam, son of Abdul Rahim, 63 years old, blacksmith, Choila village
6 - Jabbar son of Moqaddam, 32 years old, blacksmith, Choila village
7 - Husein son of Ali Muhammad, 28 years old, peasant, Yaltarkak village
8 - Musallam son of Ali, 17 years old, worker, Yaltarkak village
9 - Nader son of Rahim, 17 years old, shepherd, Chinarak village
10 - Ibrahim son of Abdul Husein, 34 years old, peasant, Chinarak village
11 - Yaqub son of Ismail, 22 years old, shepherd, Chinarak village
12 - Mir son of Devana, 35 years old, worker, Bazari Kuhna village
13 - Ahmad son of Khadim, 31 years old, farmer, Sherqala village
14 - Sayed Hamid Balkhi, son of Sayed Ismail, 27 years old, student, Parushan village
15 - Amanullah, 40 years old, worker, Khush village
16 - Ghulam Nabi, 45 years old, worker, Khush village
17 - Mohammad Amin, brother of Mawlavi Ata, 50 years old, worker, Takhshar village
18 - Mohammad Ali, husband of Mawlavi Ata's sister, 35, worker, Takhshar village
19 - Bibi Nozuka, wife of Haji Abdulhusein, 75 years old, Kushkak village
20 - Gholam Sakhi, son of Gholam Nabi, 72 years old, worker, Gulvarz village
22 - Javad son of Jumaali, 65 years old, worker, Gulvarz village
23 - Majid son of Muhammad Ali, 28 years old, worker, Gulvarz village
24 - Gholamali, son of Avaz, 23 years old, Gulvarz village
25 - An unidentified martyr, buried in Khavalsiagak on June 26
26 - An unidentified martyr who was buried in Khawalsiagak on June 26
27 - An unidentified martyr who was buried in Hawalsiagak on June 26
28 - An unidentified martyr who was buried in Khawalsiagak on June 28
29 - An unidentified martyr who was buried in Khavalsiagak on June 26
30 - Nasrullah, young worker, Tarkhoj village
31 - Mohammad Reza, young worker, Tarkhoj village
32 - Sayed Mirhusein, son of Sayed Reza, 21 years old, worker, Dahana village
33 - Ms. Suman, wife of Haji Muhammad Husein, 80 years old, elderly, housewife, Khush village
34 - Father of Haji Haidari Khushi, 90 years old, elderly, Khush village
35 - A small child who was killed along with the father of Haji Haidari.
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MARTYRS WHOSE BODIES HAVE NOT YET BEEN IDENTIFIED AND BURIED:
1 - The bodies of 6 men were found in Sher-Qala, all of whom were civilians and workers.
2 - The bodies of 3 men were found in the village of Garav, all of whom were workers
3 - The bodies of 13 workers who took refuge in the mosque of the village of Chenarak out of fear of the Taliban, and were all killed.
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In the villages of Khush, Parushan, Larkord, Togay and Dahana, several people, including women and children, are reportedly not buried. Local residents fled to the mountains, and the Taliban still did not allow them to be identified and buried.
The funeral of people became possible through the mediation of the elders and with the written permission of the governor of the Taliban, but they were not allowed to be buried with honors and were buried with insults and humiliation.
The martyrs of Gulvarz are buried in a common grave.
- Local residents and the Taliban held a funeral ceremony for the martyr Muhammad Amin, brother of Mawlavi Ata, at the Tarkhuj Cathedral Mosque.
Searches of houses began in the areas of Jarm, Dushi, Dzhakh, Ustuvan, Chub-Khosseini, Zu, Chahzamin, and Chashmai Garm in the lower part of Balkhab and the villages of Togay, Khush, Paroshan, Larkord, Dahana and around Tarkhoj. Those who were not at home broke the gate locks.
- There have been reports of arrests and detentions of civilians in these areas, whose identities I am not allowed to disclose.
- The Taliban governor announced a general amnesty on behalf of his leader.
- However, people are still forced to live in the mountains and need urgent help and medicines.
- The Taliban did not let representatives of UNAMA, the Red Cross, and human rights activists into Balkhab.
