[spectre] Fwd: Poets to support the Hazara people in Afghanistan and Pakistan

[Séamas Cain]

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If you would sign this statement of support for
the Hazara people, then please contact
Kamran Mir Hazar as indicated below ...


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> Kamran Mir Hazar <kamran at kamranmirhazar.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Friend and Colleagues,
>
> I'm writing you to ask you to support the Hazara people in Afghanistan
> and Pakistan, by signing the following open letter (letter is attached
> also).  Hazaras indigenous people are one of the most prosecuted people in
> the world, suffered systematic crimes for more than a century.
>
> I have attached a file containing links to several sources such as
> Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch about the Hazara massacres in
> last 3 decades.  I have also attached a screen shot of Hawke's Bay Herald,
> Volume XXVIII, Issue 9508, 20 October 1893, Page 2 that says:
>
> It is reported that the Ameer of Afghanistan has sold 10,000 Hazara
> captives to pay the expenses incurred in suppressing the revolt. (Maybe this
> can be a part of a poetry?)
>
> I wait for 2-3 weeks to collect signatures . After that I'll send the
> letter to recipients and international media.
>
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Kamran Mir Hazar
>
> Poet, journalist and webmaster
>
>
>
> PS: Please also forward this to other poets you know.
>
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> An open letter from the World-wide Poets addressed to United Nations
> Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon,  President of the European Commission José
> Manuel Barroso, and President of the United States, Barack Obama.
>
> Dear Sirs,
>
> After more than a century of systematic crimes such as genocide, slavery,
> sexual abuse, war crimes, and discrimination, being a Hazara still appears
> to be a crime in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Just on Thursday 11, January
> 2013, over one-hundred Hazara were killed in a terrorist attack in the city
> of Quetta, Pakistan. In recent years, more than a thousand Hazaras have been
> killed in similar organized attacks in that same country.
>
> Today, in their homeland, Afghanistan, they are still not safe. Every
> year, they face attacks by Afghan Kuchis who are backed by the Taliban and
> the Afghan government. Their roads are blocked by Taliban gunmen with cars
> stopped and passengers killed. In the center of Afghanistan, where a huge
> population of  Hazaras are marginalized, they do not have access to basic
> legal rights. They still face systematic discrimination and Taliban attacks.
> The result is that millions of Hazaras have fled to numerous countries as
> refugees or asylum seekers, frequently in terrible living conditions.
>
> Hazara indigenous people made up nearly 67 percent of the population of
> Afghanistan prior to the 19th century. However, they suffered genocide and
> enslavement twice in 19th century. They were violently forced from most
> parts of their land, which is located in the south of modern Afghanistan.
> More than 60 percent of them were killed and thousands of them were sold as
> salves.
>
> The entire history of the 20th century in Afghanistan has been marked by
> killing and discrimination against Hazaras. In August 1998, the Taliban
> killed more than ten thousand Hazaras in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif
> .  Similar massacres quickly spread to other parts of Afghanistan.
> Destroying Hazara history and making and promoting a false history about
> them have been further strategies, in addition to violent crime.
>
> For example, in March 2011, the Taliban notoriously destroyed the ancient
> Buddha sculptures of Bamiyan which are primary symbols of  Hazara history
> and culture, and one of the most popular masterpieces of the oral and
> intangible heritage of humanity. Such is the history of two centuries of
> crimes against the Hazara, and from which they suffer today.
>
> Therefore,  we poets from around the world declare our solidarity with
> the Hazara people and ask you world leaders to take following steps to
> properly insure the security and safety of the Hazara people and culture:
>
> 1: Declare a state of emergency regarding Hazara circumstances authorized
> by the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
>
> 2: Put pressure on both the Afghan and Pakistani governments to
> immediately cease acts of discrimination against the Hazaras and to stop
> supporting terrorist groups who commit violent acts against them.
>
> 3: Ask the Refugee Convention's state parties to protect Hazara asylum
> seekers and grant them asylum.
>
> 4: Establish an international truth Commission to investigate the crimes
> against the Hazaras.
>
> 5: Open a comprehensive case in international courts such as the ICC.
>
> 6: Over 150 thousand international troops are in Afghanistan. They must
> ensure sure the safety of the Hazaras before they leave Afghanistan.
>
> 7: Ask international media to investigate and report on activities
> against the Hazara, particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Poets Around the World
>
> Signatures with names, positions and countries:
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> PS:
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> 1: Copy to International Media
>
> 2: For more information contact Kamran Mir Hazar at email:
> kamran at kamranmirhazar.com and cell phone +47.96666769
>
>
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>
> Kamran Mir Hazar
>
> Poet, journalist and webmaster
>
> Email: Kamran at kamranmirhazar.com
>
> Website: www.kamranmirhazar.com
>
> Add: Konglefaret 43,
>
> 3511, Hønefoss, Norway
>
>

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