Absolutely. As a Hazara, I've always been treated differently. It's very obvious. You can feel it. You can see it. You can hear it.
With my work at the beginning, when the Taliban fell and the newcomers came to Canada from Afghanistan, I was on the hotel side helping these newcomers. The incident happened inside Canada. The Pashtun people were knocking on Hazaras' doors in hotels and telling them, “Be thankful that you're in Canada. If you were not in Canada, I would diminish your race totally, like Abdur Rahman Khan.”
We had a meeting with COSTI. We emailed Immigration as well. It was heartbreaking to hear this in a country like Canada from another ethnicity warning our Hazara people. We are very easily recognizable. If we stand among other ethnicities in Afghanistan, we have these Asian facial features. No matter what religion we are, if we are Hazara, it's in our face. No one can hide it. It has existed—