Nasim Fekrat

Since 2001 and with the international presence, The Hazarajat received few development projects. The region never has had a paved road or more than a handful of high schools or hospitals. The central Afghanistan which is majorly populated by the Hazara people is sealed in mountains and completely isolated from the rest of the country. The Taliban regime deepened that isolation and the Hazaras’ chronic malnutrition by blockading food deliveries to the Hazarajat starting in 1997. As a result, thousands people turned into eating grasses and countless numbers of them died before the Taliban took over their area. When the Taliban took the control of the Hazarajat, they started a mass atrocity against the Hazaras, on two basis: Hazaras are not Muslims because they are Shiite (not Sunni), and the Hazaras are not from Afghanistan.