Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I think the most important thing that it brings up is the awareness of what happened in the past. Also, it will add a layer of protection for this not happening in the future. As you know, the Hazara people have been suffering for centuries. That is still going on. There's also no hope that it will be stopping soon in the future.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The Canadian Parliament has been a leader of democracy in the world and I'm quite sure that, if this initiative is taken by the Parliament of Canada, it will bring an awareness at the global and international level, and a focus on what has happened and what is going on in the Hazara community.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  For sure. The atrocities that the Hazara community has suffered have been for centuries. Everybody knows about that. As I said earlier, that is the outcome or the consequence of the genocide that happened in the 19th century. That gives a socio-psychological view to the non-Hazara society that Hazaras are second-rate citizens, and they are treating them as second-rate citizens.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you so much. I think the least the Canadian government and Parliament could do at this moment would be to recognize the genocide of Hazaras that was faced by the Hazara community from 1891 to 1893. That first step of acknowledgment, hopefully globally, would change the socio-psychological approach toward the Hazara people in both the Afghan society as well as the international community.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I'm so sorry. I missed the first part of the question. Can you repeat it?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Actually, this is a historical issue, but as I witness what is going on with the Hazara people right now, in the 21st century, it's because of the after-effect or the consequence of the fatwa or the jihad given by King Abdur Rahman in 1891-93 that they consider the Hazara people as infidels, and they also enslaved the Hazara people and forced them to be displaced.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  On behalf of the Canadian Hazara Humanitarian Services, I would like to thank everyone who made this event possible to raise the voices of millions of Hazara victims who have perished and the thousands who continue to suffer systemic persecution. Mr. Chair, I'm a witness and survivor of the unspoken August 1998 Hazara genocide.