After the Taliban held the power in 1996. The Hazera’s minority encountered crime against humanity in their home. The Taliban government always regarded the Hazera’s to be one of their prime enemies because the Hazera is Shias and Taliban is Sunni. Under Taliban law, the Hazera’s faced massacre for the second time in modern history. This genocide was a continuation of the same genocide that they faced in 1880s and 90s by Amir Abdul Rahman Khan, the Pashtoon tyrant king who killed many of the Hazera population and forced many to leave to neighboring countries.
The old and the new constitution of Afghanistan does not mention any types of religious discrimination in Afghanistan. The constitution mentions that the religion of Afghanistan is the…show more content… The first massacre on August 08, 1998 when Taliban militia forces seized the city of Mazar-i Sharif in Northwest Afghanistan then Taliban forces carried out a systematic search for men members of the ethnics, but the Hazera that Shi’a ethnic group were particularly targeted, during the house-to-house searches, scores and perhaps hundreds of Hazera male and boys were executed, apparently to ensure that they would be unable to mount any resistance to the Taliban. Also, during their search operations in Mazar, the Taliban ordered some residents to prove that they were not Shi'a by reciting Sunni prayers. During this time the officials of this city, Governor Niazi made inflammatory speeches against Hazera in which he ordered them to become Sunnis, leave Afghanistan, or risk being…show more content… In the course of conducting search operations following the recapture of the district from two Hazara-based parties in the United Front, the Taliban detained about 300 civilian adult males, including staff members of local humanitarian organizations. The men were collected to assembly points in the center of the district and several outlying areas, and then shot by firing squad in public view and about 170 men are confirmed to have been killed. The killings were apparently intended as a collective punishment for local residents whom the Taliban suspected of cooperating with United Front forces, and to deter the local population from doing so in the
