{"id":1908,"date":"2015-11-14T15:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T15:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1908-thousands-attend-funerals-of-beheaded-afghan-shias\/"},"modified":"2015-11-14T15:01:10","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T15:01:10","slug":"thousands-attend-funerals-of-beheaded-afghan-shias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/islam\/1908-thousands-attend-funerals-of-beheaded-afghan-shias\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands attend funerals of beheaded Afghan Shias"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"font-size: 12.1599998474121px; line-height: 15.8079996109009px;\">people attended the burials of seven Shia Hazaras in Afghanistan<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>\u00a0<\/h4>\n<h4>Thousands of people attended the burials of seven Shia Hazaras in Afghanistan, witnesses said, nearly a week after their decapitated bodies were found, with the gruesome discovery spurring massive protests, including in Kabul.<\/h4>\n<h4>The coffins of the four men, two women and one young girl \u2013 named as Shukria \u2013 were flown by Afghan military helicopters from Kabul to their home district of Jaghuri in central Ghazni province, a local tribal elder said.<\/h4>\n<h4>Around 5,000 people took part in the funeral ceremony under tight security.<\/h4>\n<h4>The seven people from the mostly Shia Hazara ethnic minority were kidnapped from Jaghuri by unknown gunmen in October this year.<\/h4>\n<h4>Their bodies were found last week in neighboring Zabul province, which is under Taliban control and has been the scene of clashes between rival militant factions. Officials have yet to confirm who is responsible for the killings.<\/h4>\n<h4>The three million-strong Afghan Hazara community has been persecuted for decades, with thousands killed in the late 1990s by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.<\/h4>\n<h4>There has been a surge in violence against the mostly Shia Hazara this year, with a series of kidnappings and killings that have triggered a wave of fury on social media.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>people attended the burials of seven Shia Hazaras in Afghanistan \u00a0 Thousands of people attended the burials of seven Shia Hazaras in Afghanistan, witnesses said, nearly a week after their decapitated bodies were found, with the gruesome discovery spurring massive protests, including in Kabul. 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