Thank you. Thank you for these questions.
Unfortunately, the situation to get information out of Afghanistan is very difficult, particularly from rural areas and from many others where the Hazaras are living. It is near to impossible to hear about or to collect and verify information on the atrocities that are happening in those areas. It is very difficult.
As I said in my statement today, the Hazara representations, in terms of the decision-making or the structure of the government whereby they can protect themselves, are the same. There is no change. Additionally, this year, we saw the Taliban put additional restrictions on the Shia Hazaras in terms of their religious rituals in general from the beginning, and then additional restrictions were introduced at the provincial level, as you can see from UNAMA's report that was mentioned today.
The situation involving forced evictions continues. In one case, it was reported without their being very specific in terms of who the perpetrator was and how it happened. In just the past few months, I think six people, Hazaras in Khas Uruzgan were killed. Several houses and properties were destroyed. When it comes to accountability, unfortunately, we don't see any accountability by the Taliban with respect to what they are doing. That is a very difficult situation.
I want to add another point. The situation of Hazaras is unfortunately one in which we and everyone else in the international community are asking the oppressors to protect the victims. If you look at the background of the Taliban, they massacred Hazaras in the 1990s. A key example of that was Mazar-i-Sharif, which could be considered genocide. It was so horrible. They did that in Bamiyan and several other areas. Some of that we have investigated. Amnesty International has investigated and verified and reported on this.