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Is Afghanistan the graveyard of the Hazaras and their dreams?

The violent incidents, which have had their effect on Afghanistan's peoplefor a long time, have increased in recent years. With the fall of Afghanistanto the hands of the Taliban, concerns have grown over the country forvarious ethnic and particularly for the Hazara Shiites. The Hazara are one ofthe minority groups in this country as over a long period endured variousforms of oppression by the hands of Pashtun rulers and governments, fromethnic cleansing to slavery and systematic eviction from ancestral homes and lands. Therefore, the following study aims to investigate how the Hazara peopleperceive the peace process in their nation, the focusing of this study isbetween 2020-2022 and the perception of the reasons for the regularexplosions in their area. The method used in this thesis is qualitative methods in the form of interviewand discourse analysis. The Norwegian professor Johan Galtung's triangle ofviolence (which includes structural, cultural and direct violence) has beenused to analyze theoretical connections. Results of the study have shown that in a country like Afghanistan wheremost people belong to the Sunni Muslims that include Taliban and otherextremist groups who also currently rule the country consider Hazara to beinfidels. Since Pashtuns (previously had the power) or the Taliban (who havecurrent power over this country) believe the Hazaras have been persecuted,targeted, killed for many years. In terms of how these groups view the peace process in their country, theresults show that this group cannot predict what will happen due to manydifferent factors that are important and affected in this country such as theTaliban rule over the country, the financial crisis due to the long-lasting warand the large percentage of the population that is illiterate.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-118708
Date January 2023
CreatorsQurbani, Fatema
PublisherLinnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsstudier (SS)
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text
Formatapplication/pdf
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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