Hazara women protest “Genocide” as Kabul blast toll reaches 35
The UN announced on Saturday that the number of fatalities from a suicide bombing in a Kabul classroom had increased to 35, while Shia Hazara women who suffered the greatest losses in the attack held a defiant protest against the “genocide” of their community.
In the Dasht-i-Barchi neighborhood of the capital, a suicide bomber detonated himself on Friday when hundreds of students were completing examinations to prepare for university admission exams.
The current incident has not yet been attributed to any one group. Attacks on mosques, schools, and females have previously been claimed by the terrorist Islamic State (IS) group, which views Shia as heretics.
The majority of Shia Hazara neighborhoods are located there.
At least 35 people have died and 82 more have been injured in the attack, according to the most recent fatality estimates, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Security has been a touchy subject for the Taliban since taking back control in August, and the hardliners have frequently sought to minimize attacks that pose a threat to their rule.
Numerous Hazara women disobeyed a prohibition on demonstrations on Saturday to condemn the most recent bloodshed in their community. Around 50 ladies marched passed a hospital in Dasht-i-Barchi where numerous attack victims were being treated while chanting, “Stop Hazara genocide, it’s not a crime to be a Shia.”
The demonstrators carried signs that said, “Stop killing Hazaras,” and they were clad in black hijabs and headscarves.
According to eyewitnesses, the suicide attacker blew himself up in the study hall’s female area. Farzana Ahmadi, a 19-year-old protester, claimed that the Hazaras and Hazara girls were the targets of yesterday’s attack. “We call for an end to this genocide. To demand our rights, we organized the protest.”
The attack on Friday, according to Amnesty International, was “a shamefaced reminder of the ineptitude and abject failure.”
More than 60 #Hazara students were killed in their classroom yesterday. Think about it-we lost 60+ young members of our community in the blink of an eye. I hope not a single person experiences this piercing, searing pain we are going through as a community. #StopHazaraGenocide
— انیس Anis (@Anis_Rezae) October 1, 2022
