I'm not saying it's just Canada, but unfortunately the way it works.... If you look at the last 20 years, the international community mainly focused on different regions. For example, the Canadian focus was in Kandahar. The American focus was somewhere else, and then they were in Kabul and the rest. The Germans were in Mazar-i-Sharif. In Hazarajat, you had just New Zealand.
Money that was used to contribute to the development of Afghanistan wasn't much compared to other countries. If you look thoroughly at the amount of money that went to our community over the last 20 years, when the international community was there, it is very tiny compared to other areas. That's what I was saying.
At the moment, that is happening again. For example, I have a report, and I just submitted a letter from the local people as well. The international community allocated money for Bamiyan, for example, to 10 districts. However, somehow the locals, because they have to work under the Taliban.... The Taliban put on a lot of pressure and said, “Okay, the only way you can operate is if you divert this project to now go to this province, not here.”
This is what I mean by international aid being diverted from the Hazara community now. This is the pressure because of the Taliban. Even the international community cannot contribute its aid to the local people. It is very hard. It has to bargain with the Taliban. They say, “Okay, if you want the aid to go there, 90% should go elsewhere and we'll let 10% go there.”