A new campaign with the #UnitedAfghanistan hashtag has started on Twitter and is allegedly backed by the Taliban. The campaign appears to be a reaction to the #StopHazaraGenocide campaign, which has been trending with over eight million tweets.
In the #StopHazaraGenocide campaign, Twitter users have widely criticised the Taliban for failing to protect the Hazara people from targeted terrorist attacks in Afghanistan. Many Twitter users who are a part of the campaign believed elements from the Taliban have been involved in the targeted killings of the Hazaras.
However, the #UnitedAfghanistan campaign on Twitter has been widely backed by Taliban members and supporters.
These users have often used the #UnitedAfghanistan hashtag and tweeted with pictures of the Taliban leaders.
It seems that the Taliban officials and their supporters view the #StopHazaraGenocide campaign as ethnic-centered and have launched the #UnitedAfghanistan as a parallel campaign on Twitter.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted with the #UnitedAfghanistan hashtag and has written that "unity is the secret of our every victory".
Without referring to the #StopHazaraGenocide campaign and targeted killings of the Hazara people in Afghanistan, Latif Nazari, Deputy Minister of the Economy of the Taliban, who is an ethnic Hazara, has written on Twitter that "the enemies and their domestic agents have failed in achieving their goal, which is blowing ethnic rifts".
