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DESCRIPTION:The Faculty of Law and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pl
 uralism invite you to a very timely talk with Gregory Stanton\, Halima Bah
 man\, Stuart Russell\, BCL'81\, LLB'82\, and Derakhshan Qurban-Ali\, BCL/J
 D'21\, moderated by Professor Frédéric Mégret.\n\nTime and time again\, th
 e world has borne witness to genocide and mass atrocities around the world
 \, from the Holocaust during WWII\, to Rwanda\, Srebrenica\, Cambodia\, an
 d Syria. Despite vowing to “Never Again” stand idle while innocent civilia
 ns are brutally massacred\, we see history repeating itself in Afghanistan
  today.\n\nRight now\, innocent civilians are being brutally massacred\, j
 ournalists and human rights defenders are being tortured\, civil society i
 s under attack\, female judges and police officers are being hunted down b
 y the same terrorists they once brought to justice\, and the persecuted Ha
 zara community is at risk of genocide at the hands of the Taliban once mor
 e.\n\nHazaras in particular are among the most vulnerable communities in A
 fghanistan right now and have long been persecuted by the Taliban (and oth
 er extremist groups) for their ethnicity and Shi’a faith. When the Taliban
  took power in Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998\, the Taliban ordered door-to-door e
 xecutions of over 8\,000 Hazaras in systematic ethnic-cleansing campaigns.
  Chilling reports of targeted killings are emerging following the Taliban 
 takeover and Hazaras around the country fear for their existence once more
 .\n\nOn 19 August 2021\, Amnesty International reported that the Taliban w
 ere responsible for the brutal massacre and torture of Hazara civilians in
  Ghazni province\, warning: “The cold-blooded brutality of these killings 
 is a reminder of the Taliban’s past record\, and a horrifying indicator of
  what Taliban rule may bring.” The Taliban and ISIS have notoriously blood
 y histories of persecuting religious minorities\, with Hazaras being their
  primary targets in Afghanistan. Hazara neighbourhoods in Kabul\, such as 
 Dasht-e-Barchi\, have been targeted with systematic attacks from extremist
 s for years.\n\nDr. Gregory Stanton\, Founding President of Genocide Watch
 \, points out that “since 2015\, Islamist terrorist attacks have killed at
  least 1\,200 Hazaras. The attacks deliberately target their hospitals and
  children. These are war crimes and crimes against humanity.” Recent targe
 ted attacks also include the bombing of a Hazara girls’ school (killing 85
  schoolgirls)\, a Hazara tutoring centre (killing 30) and the massacre of 
 Hazara new-born babies\, mothers and nurses in an MSF-run hospital materni
 ty ward.\n\nStanton has cautioned that the “grave peril of genocide” for H
 azaras will be worse than Cambodia if we do not act with urgency\, as both
  the Taliban and IS-KP condemn Hazaras as heretics: “If we abandon Afghani
 stan\, we will forget the horror of Khmer Rouge Cambodia\, a nation we als
 o abandoned.”\n\nThis event will unpack and explore the history and experi
 ences of the Hazaras in Afghanistan\, and analyse the risk of genocide for
  this persecuted community\, in the wake of the Taliban takeover of the co
 untry.\n
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LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/86902912009
SUMMARY:The Hazaras in Afghanistan: Discrimination\, Persecution\, Genocide
URL:/law/channels/event/hazaras-afghanistan-discrimina
 tion-persecution-genocide-333506
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