Hazara and other Shia Muslim communities in Afghanistan are facing what seem to be \u201csystematic\u201d attacks that could amount to international crimes, a United Nations expert has warned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Afghanistan\u2019s Hazaras have faced decades of abuse and state-sponsored discrimination, including by the ruling Taliban, which first ran the country from 1996 to 2001 and then seized power again in August last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richard Bennett, the special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, said on Monday, 12th of September, Hazara and other groups have been \u201carbitrary arrested, tortured, summarily executed, displaced from traditional lands, subjected to discriminatory taxation and otherwise marginalized.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese attacks appear to be systematic in nature and reflect elements of an organizational policy,\u201d Bennett said as he presented his first report to the UN Human Rights Council.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added the attacks bear the \u201challmarks of international crimes and need to be fully investigated.\u201d International crimes refer to war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the Taliban\u2019s return to power, the ISKP has claimed responsibility for 13 attacks against Hazaras and has been linked to at least three more, killing and wounding at least 700 people, the rights group said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hazara and other Shia Muslim communities in Afghanistan are facing what seem to be \u201csystematic\u201d attacks that could amount to international crimes, a United Nations expert has warned. Afghanistan\u2019s Hazaras have faced decades of abuse and state-sponsored discrimination, including by the ruling Taliban, which first ran the country from 1996 to 2001 and then seized …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1921,43,1827,172],"class_list":["post-85749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","tag-afghan-hazara","tag-afghanistan","tag-shia-muslims","tag-united-nations"],"yoast_head":"\n