Women Hold Protest Against Hazara Genocide in Jalalabad City

UNAMA added that accountability and protection of the rights of all Afghans is the key to peace. The UN mission in Afghanistan said on Tuesday that it will "continue to monitor” the situation in Panjshir.

Earlier, the Taliban had announced that Mohammad Mohsen Hashemi had been appointed as the new governor of Panjshir. However, UNAMA named Mohammad Nasim Noori as the governor of Panjshir and said that the UN mission’s teams have met him.

Since the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban in August 2021, Panjshir province has witnessed intense clashes between the National Resistance Front (NRF) and the Taliban forces.

Local sources and the NRF in Panjshir have continuously accused the Taliban of grave human rights violations in the province. The Taliban has been accused of torture, cold blood killings, targeting civilians, and committing war crimes.

Earlier, NRF officials had claimed that they had captured Shekay district and arrested its local officials.

However, Afghanistan International sources confirmed that NRF forces ambushed the district officials on Monday night and arrested them.

The sources said that NRF forces had transferred the captured Taliban local officials to "Dargak" area and released them after two hours.

Meanwhile, a video which had been published on social media on Monday night showed that Mawlawi Akram, the Taliban district governor for Shekay district of Badakhshan province, had been held captive by the NRF forces.

Mawlawi Akram said that the NRF forces had not treated him inappropriately.

On the other hand, NRF forces had been heard in the video confirming that they would release Mawlawi Akram and all the Taliban prisoners without any harm.

On Monday evening, conflicting news about the fall of Shekay district had been published on social media.

Sibghatullah Ahmadi, the spokesperson of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, announced on his official Twitter account that Shekay district had been captured by the NRF forces.

However, Abdul Nafi Takor, the spokesperson of the Taliban's Ministry of Interior, immediately reacted to the news and denied the claims that Taliban forces had fled the area.

Sources from Kapisa province said that the Taliban members have been violent in dispersing the students.

Over the past three days, protests by female students from Talim wa Tarbia University in Kabul expanded to universities in Herat, Bamiyan, Daikundi, Balkh, Kapisa and Panjshir provinces.

These demonstrations have been held to call for an end to the Hazara genocidal killings in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, protests against killing of Hazara community members have been held in several countries around the world.

The protests have been held after the September 30 attack on an educational center in Kabul in which 53 people have been killed and over 100 have been injured.

UNAMA confirmed that its human rights department continues to document the crimes in Afghanistan.

UNAMA announced the updated statistics of Friday’s deadly attack in western Kabul, while female students held demonstrations in Kabul, Herat, Bamiyan and Balkh to protest against the genocide of Hazaras of Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, a Twitter campaign which started with the hashtag "#StopHazaraGenocide" has been tweeted more than a million times on the micro-blogging site.

The attack, wherein victims have all been students, has also faced a strong reaction globally.

Along with Afghan artists, politicians, and cultural activists, well-known figures such as Elif Shafaq, the well-known Turkish-British novelist have joined the campaign to call for a stop to the genocide of Hazara community in Afghanistan.

Supporters of the campaign have urged the international community to recognize that a genocide is currently underway against the Hazara Shia community in Afghanistan.

So far, many politicians, rights activists, artists, and members of the Hazara ethnic community have joined the Twitter campaign.

Sarwar Danesh, the former vice-president, supported the campaign and said that terrorism will eventually be rooted out of Afghanistan.

Shukria Barakzai, the former ambassador of Afghanistan in Norway, joined the campaign and wrote on her Twitter account that the campaign could be a sign of national unity of Afghans.

The Twitter campaign supporters believe that Hazaras of Afghanistan have been systematically targeted and are facing genocidal killings.

Elif Shafak, the Turkish-British novelist, too joined the campaign and called the Hazaras of Afghanistan a wanted minority group.

Farhad Darya, a famous Afghan singer, has called for a week of national mourning for the victims of September 30 attack on Hazaras in western Kabul.

In recent years, attacks on Hazaras, especially on their educational centers, have increased. Islamic State-Khurasan has taken responsibility for most of the attacks.

More than 40 students died and over 100 others were injured in the September 30 attack.

Human rights groups have repeatedly announced that after the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, members of the Hazara and Shia community of Afghanistan have been systematically attacked.