Documentation of murders, cruelty against Hazaras of Uruzgan sent to United Nations

A group of residents of Khas Uruzgan District in the center of Afghanistan, who belong to the Hazara tribe, say they have sent their “documents” of murders, burning of land and cutting of trees, perpetrated against the inhabitants of the area, to the relevant United Nations bodies.

According to their statement, in the past two years, at least 14 people have been killed in this area because of their ethnic and religious identity.

The pictures and videos that have been made available to the media show that houses and agricultural lands are on fire and hundreds of trees have been cut down.

These victims describe the attacks as “multiple systematic and targeted crimes and mistreatment against Hazara residents of this village.”

Some of the Hazara residents of Jooye-nou region have also documented what has happened in the past two years in this region, including the burning of fields, murder, beating of people, and cutting down of trees, which reportedly happened mainly during the Taliban regime.

These documents were sent to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in Kabul and to  Richard Bennett, the special human rights rapporteur of this organization, as well as other international authorities.