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Hazara activists launched a Twitter campaign on October 3 with the #StopHazaraGenocide hashtag. The campaign had been started by Hazara rights activists after a suicide attack on an educational center on September 30 in western Kabul.

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.

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.

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

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

According to Dehzad, during the five years of operations at Rahe Danishgah, they have witnessed several attacks on educational institutes in Kabul.

He mentioned the deadly attacks on Mawud Educational Center; Kawsar-e-Danesh Center; Seyyed al-Shuhada High School, and Kaaj Educational School, which killed and injured hundreds of young Hazara Shia teenagers.

Dehzad added that with each passing day, the number of students participating at these centers has decreased due to security threats and because the atmosphere of fear and intimidation has been increasing.

The Taliban have not yet responded to the former Afghan president’s call. According to Karzai’s press office, in the meeting with the Japanese ambassador at his residence in Kabul, they also exchanged views on the education of Afghan girls and the attack at the Kaj educational center.

In the meeting with the former Afghan president, Takashi expressed his condolences to the victims of the terrorist attack at the Kaj educational center.

According to the UN statistics, at least 53 people had been killed and more than 110 had been injured in the suicide attack on the Kaj educational center in western Kabul. Most of the victims in the attack had been female students.

The former president of Afghanistan has also urged the Taliban to reopen schools for female students across Afghanistan.

The organiser told Afghanistan international that they had taken permission to hold the demonstration in New Delhi.

The organisers said that it was still unclear as to why the police blocked their demonstration.

After the recent deadly attack at the Kaj educational center in the west of Kabul city, widespread protests have been held inside Afghanistan and outside the country.

Several human rights groups and civil society activists have launched a Twitter campaign with #StopHazaraGenocide hashtag. So far, this hashtag has been tweeted more than five million times.

Earlier in July 2022, Taliban forces had clashed with Uzbek border guards in Shortepa district of Balkh province.

According to the Taliban’s Ministry of Defense, the group’s 6th brigade command Mansoor Jawid and the commander of the border forces of Uzbekistan, met in Hairatan port.

After the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban forces have clashed with Iran, Pakistan, and Uzbekistan forces several times.

In one such case, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev confirmed that an Uzbek soldier had been killed during clashes on the border with Afghanistan.

Earlier this year, Islamic State-Khursan (IS-K) claimed to have launched a rocket attack on the Termez military facility in Uzbekistan from Afghanistan.

Afghanistan and Uzbekistan have a 137 kilometers joint borders.