The Hazaras are very diverse. They are the most diverse ethnic group in Afghanistan. They are Shias. They are Sunnis. They are Ismailis. Recently, there are new Christian converts. Because of this diversity, there is no one single establishment that would be regarded as leadership—for example, one single political party. There are several, and they have different political tendencies.
That has been a weak point for the Hazaras. They don't have one single institution to speak for them, both inside Afghanistan and outside of Afghanistan. There are mostly ad hoc community efforts, like the group you see today here. We organized on our own. We came here just to get somebody to listen to us. That has been one reason why the Hazaras' story is not that well known. When the genocide happened, the Armenian genocide happened almost at the same time, but the Armenian genocide is better known because of the sustained effort by the Armenian community in the west and also in Armenia, but not by the Hazaras.
The number two reason is that the British Empire was directly complicit in the genocide of the Hazaras, because it was very famously Russophobic. They wanted to keep away the Russians. They didn't care much about the cost, the human cost. For example, one reason why in the U.K. the politicians and members of Parliament shy away from the question of genocide is that they don't want to acknowledge their own role in the violence against Hazaras.
These have been some of the reasons why the Hazaras so far have failed in raising their voices on the international stage and attracting attention.