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[Below] Hazara Rally starts with one-minute silence to honor ‘fallen Australian soldiers’ in the war in Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/849645041169698816
Media Coverage of Rally
- The Guardian – Turnbull pledges Afghanistan support but forced return of asylum seekers ‘not discussed’ – April 5
- The Guardian – Australian Hazaras protest visit of Afghan president Ashraf Ghani
- SBS – ‘If they return, they will be killed’: Hazaras protest Afghan president’s Canberra visit, fearing a refugee deal
- Skynews – Turnbull signs Afghan agreement
- SBS – Turnbull and Ghani sign $320m Afghan development agreement
- Washington Post – Australia pledges support during Afghan president’s visit
- ToloNews – Enlightenment Movement Protests In Canberra During Ghani Visit
Refugee Council
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/848753980499013632
Join the rally in Canberra today, 3 April, to protest the visit of the President of Afghanistan. See why: https://t.co/EojuOauKUT
— Julian Burnside (@JulianBurnside) April 2, 2017
https://twitter.com/Luke_FoleyNSW/status/848721242882326528
https://twitter.com/vanbadham/status/848713082834636801
Solidarity with everyone at #CanberraRally, #FreeHazaras @hazaranet @Ali1_Nazari
— eX-detainees (@riserefugee) April 3, 2017
As an European I strongly support the Enlightening Movement and all the people seeking for peace and justice in Afghanistan #CanberraRally pic.twitter.com/FWBiUUK2AU
— Nik Valentini (@NikValentini) April 3, 2017
During P @ashrafghani Australia trip, big Afghan community there been asked 2 communicate messages via email. Why no public event? 1/2
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) April 2, 2017
We know P @ashrafghani loved lecturing abroad. Has @Enlighteningmov protests forced a new modus operandi on him? 2/2
— BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) April 2, 2017
Australia needs to reconsider its assistance to a govt that discriminates against its citizens. #CanberraRally
— Akram Gizabi (@AGizabi) April 2, 2017
جلوه های ماندگار از حضور شکوهمند عدالتخواهان در تظاهرات جنبش روشنایی در کانبرا#CanberraRally pic.twitter.com/2wOmzJcK5b
— Ahmad Behzad (@ahmadbehzad74) April 3, 2017
با دسته های گل تبعیض را ریشه کن خواهیم کرد
With flowers we Will destroy systematic #discrimination
عکسها تظاهرات #کانبرا #CanberraRally pic.twitter.com/sTg5vYT206— Hazara World (@HazaraWorld) April 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/847968834669731840
#Australian #Hazaras protest visit of #Afghan president @ashrafghani https://t.co/g1rkUmbSTM
— Saleha Soadat (@SalehaSoadat) April 4, 2017
Hazaras have been systematically discriminated against for a long period and during President #Ghani https://t.co/Mb3Kj5UpAx #CanberraRally
— Basir Ahang (@basirahang) April 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/848955657101471745
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/848904140445159425
[Above] Follow ‘conversation thread’ to understand the real issues between the Hazaras and Afghan Government.
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/848791484098916352
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/848789863205941248
https://twitter.com/hazaranet/status/848787300343570432
We demand moratorium on all forced deportation and re initiating of MoU signed in 2011 btwn both govts. #CanberraRally pic.twitter.com/THtMfynOrj
— Barat Ali Batoor (@BaratBatoor) April 3, 2017
CANBERRA RALLY
Canberra, Australia – March 27, 2017: Hazara activists in Australia and all across the globe are staging another show down with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani upon his arrival in Australian capital, Canberra, on April 3rd, 2017. The latest is in a series of intense but peaceful activism by the institutionally-persecuted Hazaras that is haunting the Afghan government of Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai.
The Hazaras accuse the Afghan government of institutionalized discrimination, leaving them completely exposed to existential threats from terrorist organizations –ISIS, Taliban, AlQaeda, Lashkar-e Jhangvi etc– sworn to exterminate them from both Afghanistan and Pakistan region.
The Afghan government has a century long history of intense persecution and marginalization of Hazaras. During the ‘war of 1890s,’ the Afghan government wiped out an estimated 60% of Hazara population, sold tens of thousands in slavery, and enacted a policy of ‘forced migration’ to resettle Hazara provinces with its ethnic kin, the Pashtuns.
#Canberra Rally – April 3, 2017
- Stand with peaceful Hazaras against ISIS, Taliban, AlQaeda & Institutional Discrimination in Afghanistan.
The Policy of Taliban is to exterminate the Hazaras
ISIS
Hazaras are root of all evil because ‘they support Western Democracy in Afghanistan’ [ISIS video 2016]
Just as our fighters have waged a successful jihad against the Shi’ite Hazaras in Afghanistan, our mission in Pakistan is the abolition of this impure sect and its followers from every city, every village and every nook and corner of Pakistan
- Government House Canberra, Dunrossil Dr, Yarralumla ACT 2600, Australia (new)
- April 3, 2017 – 10am to 1pm local time
- Before April 3 – Reach out and Awareness campaign
- On April 3 – Join protest and global Twitter campaign
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIXp_sbZzA8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0va0uf0Wkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZuuvPAGkY4
- Refugee Issue – There are reports that President Ghani will sign secret deportation deal –like the secret ‘EU deal’— with Australian government to deport ‘unlimited number of Afghan refugees’ back to Afghanistan.
The fact that Pres. Ghani is also trying to make a ‘peace deal’ with Taliban (his ethnic kin), the deportation deal — in the case of Hazara Refugees– makes it a existential threat given that Taliban, AlQaeda, ISIS have vowed to ‘exterminate’ Hazaras in Afghanistan (and Pakistan region) and Afghan Government does not allow Hazaras to become part of the Security apparatus of Afghanistan.President Ashraf GhaniPresident Ghani: [migrants] want to leave under the slightest pressureBBC: It is not the slightest pressure though…last year [2015] has seen the worst violencePresident Ghani – But is it better elsewhere?
BBC: They seem to think so and they are making very dangerous jourrney [to migrate]President Ghani – They are making the journey voluntarily…they have made a false assumption to leave. When they leave, they break the social contract. Countries do not survive by their best attempting to flee. So I have no sympathy.Note: President Ghani –a US citizen– only came back to Afghanistan as Afghan President. Both of his children –Tariq and Mariam– are US citizens and live in the relative safety of the US.
- Justice regarding Hazara Massacre in Afghanistan.
TUTAP is an ADB-funded power transmission line from Turkmenistan which was supposed to pass through Hazara heartland, Bamiyan. The Afghan government instead cancelled it and re-routed it via Salang Tunnel.
Issue: Hazaras contend that the issue is not #TutapviaBamiyan but that a Pashtun-dominated ARG (Presidential Palace) will never allow any strategic project to pass through Hazaristan (also known as historic Hazarajat). To newer generation of Hazaras ask a completely different question: why is Bamiyan — literal: city of lights– without electricity in 21st century?
DehmazangMassacre The EnlighteningMovement protest demanding #TUTAPviaBamiyan was targeted by a double suicide attack by ISIS, killing at least 80 and injuring over 250. The government has not done any meaningful investigation, leading Hazaras to question if Afghan Government is serious.
Zabul Beheading was the first brutal beheading of Hazara women and children by ISIS, causing massive protests all across Afghanistan and around the globe. This was dubbed ‘Tabassum Revolution’ – named after the slain child, Shukria Tabassum.
- Mass Hazara Kidnapping
The mass kidnapping and killing of Hazaras across Afghanistan’s major highways — dubbed as ‘highways of death’– has reached epic proportions. This is particularly concerning given major NATO presence in the country. In Oct, 2016, Hazara MP Hussain Nasiri said 163 Hazara passengers have been kidnapped and murdered in Afghanistan. - Institutional Discrimination
Hazara Afghan MP, Arif Rahmani has accused the Afghan Government of continuing its [century-old] policy of systemically marginalizing the Hazaras in Afghanistan.According to Mr. Rahmani, the Afghan government has subjected the Hazaras — which makes at least seven million of Afghanistan’s population and a sizable population in Kabul — to an ‘un-written’ rule where they can only hold ceremonial posts but no important posts in Afghanistan.In addition, the entire $117B aid to Afghan government has simply vanished. Not even 1% of $117B dollars is spent anywhere in Hazara areas that makes 20% plus of Afghanistan’s entire population.
UK (London) Protest
Afghan President’s guards beats Hazara protersters in UK – May, 2016: Afghan President’s bodyguards created a major embarrassment for their host in London beating British Hazara protesters of Enlightening movement during the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtfv415t-Pg
Poland (Warsaw) Protest
Hazara Enlightening movement’s protest outside NATO Summit in Warsaw, Poland credited for Afghan President cancelling his speech.
Sweden (Stockholm) Protest
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#Afghan #Refugees challenging Pres. #AshrafGhani ‘bring your children, we will voluntarily come back to AFG’
Nuance: Pres. Ghani’s children –Mariam & Tariq– lives in safety of US as its citizens. Country is safe for Afghans but not for family?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYOAkS_5RwI
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