Committees of the House   in Ottawa and listened to their issues here and back in Afghanistan. I am regularly in touch with Shahr Hazara of One Afghan Woman Foundation, Tahir Shaaran of Canadian Hazara Advocacy Group, community leaders like Amin Karimi and many others who have been highlighting the challenges

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't know the extent, but this is something we need to investigate. The Afghan community in Sweden had a similar problem in 2018. Our community in Sweden sent an inquiry to the Parliament of Canada, saying that the money the Swedish and Canadian communities contributed wasn'

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  You're welcome.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Is that for me?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Mr. Ibrahimi, do you want to answer, or should I?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. I think it is very important to have a special desk for Hazaras' human rights currently, because we need to monitor them. At the moment, having direct access on the ground is not easy. For example, when I'm in contact with many people to get the right message, there a

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  —to monitor what is going on on the ground.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  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

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Our people are really thankful in general to Canada, because in this difficult situation the contribution you make in international aid to Afghanistan is enormous compared to that of any other country. One thing, however, is important. Unfortunately the policy on the ground is s

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There are two things. First, with regard to whether the Taliban are listening or not, I think they will listen, and I will elaborate on that. With regard to the Hazara genocide recognition as a whole for humankind, I think the atrocity is just ongoing, and it needs to be recogni

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  If you recognize that this was genocide, I think this is very important not just for the Hazaras but important for all of humanity. In general, as a community, we have been suffering for over 130 years. We've experienced ongoing genocide and still are experiencing it. I think thi

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I agree with that. Unfortunately, under the Taliban In Afghanistan there is clearly gender apartheid and ethnic apartheid. It's not just gender apartheid. It's both, unfortunately. If we are saying that the Taliban are different from Daesh, this is arguable. In 1998, if there we

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I have submitted a very long study on this issue in the Etilaat newspaper on the displacement of Hazaras. You can clearly see that hundreds of Hazaras families have been displaced over two years. In the place I was born, in Qarghanato in Bamiyan province, last year no one in my

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I want to add that what Dr. Ibrahimi mentioned about the Taliban ideology toward the Hazaras is true. They see Hazaras as infidels, and that's why we have a lot of examples in the past. When they took Mazar-i-Sharif—I was a young kid at that time—they killed more than 8,000 Hazar

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Ms. Salehi. Now I invite Dr. Tahir Shaaran. The floor is yours.