Thanks for having me here.
I want to say thanks to Canada for their mission in Afghanistan for peacekeeping. I want to say thanks to the Canadian government for helping the refugees of Afghanistan by bringing them to Canada and helping them out.
Also, I appreciate and thank you guys who have accepted me to come here as a witness and speak about the genocide of the Hazara during 1891 and 1892.
At that time, 62% of the Hazara people were killed and wiped out. A mentality was going on at that time in all of the Hazara society in Afghanistan. In Uruzgan province, almost every single person was killed. Abdur Rahman Khan ordered to bring 6,000 Durrani people from the Kandahar district. Then, about 4,000 people from the Ghilzay tribe were brought and resettled in Hazara lands and houses. It was a very tragic situation when it was happening there.
What I'm talking about is mostly based on what my grandmother told me of her eyewitness stories and also from books. There are five different books. I will talk about that later on if somebody wants to know what books there are. There are very well-known history books.
Then, after that, this is what happened during the time of Habibullah Khan and his son. It was slavery time for Hazara people, and about 9,000 women were sold only in Kabul, based on the tax that they paid to the government of Afghanistan at that time. All of those 9,000 women were sold to be slaves. This was only in Kabul, and then this could have been for other big cities in Afghanistan, anywhere in Afghanistan.
The raping, killing and atrocities against Hazara people kept going on until the son of Habibullah Khan died in 1919. From 1891 to 1919, there was no life for Hazara people living in Afghanistan. That caused lots of people to move from Afghanistan to escape the killings to Quetta in Pakistan, and they created another town in Pakistan. Mashhad in Iran is a place where lots of Hazara lived. They all escaped at that time from Afghanistan.
There are lots of atrocities to talk about. Each one of the atrocities is really unbelievable. It's unbelievable that a person could do that to another person.
After that, there was a little bit of a break during Amanullah Khan's reign. He introduced a constitution that everybody should be equal. Hazara people supported him during the civil war. Anyway, he escaped from Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, at a school, a young guy named Abdul Khaliq killed Nadir Khan. Once he killed Nadir Khan, his tribe dominated Afghanistan for another 30 years. Afghanistan then marginalized and discriminated against the Hazara. The discrimination happened all the way up to 1964.
Then, again, there was another break. The people had schools and hospitals open during the mission of NATO in Afghanistan. There was a green light that popped out, but it didn't last too long. The people were jealous because Hazara were very talented people. The kids started going to school, showing up and were in offices. Before, they were not allowed to be anywhere in those kinds of places.
They started suicide bombing inside the gatherings of Hazara society, anywhere from the mosques to the schools and hospitals. They also bombed in the road. When the people were travelling from one place to another, they were taken off and searched if they were Hazara. They were killing those people.
In 1992, during the civil war, there was another attack on Hazara people during the civil war between different warlords. The punishment got to the Hazara people, in a place called Afshar in Kabul. The government and its allied party attacked at that time. It was 1992. I do believe it was February 11-12 of—