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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
How Kabul's Hazara People Are Forced To Arm Themselves
During the last weeks and months, several attacks on the Hazara, an Afghan Shi'ite minority, have taken place. The culprits, mostly ISIS extremists, are killing members of the minority explicitly because of their religious background.
The Daesh/ISIS terrorists don't consider Shi'ites as "real Muslims", so they slaughter them.
In Afghanistan, this slaughter has reached a new peak. Dozens of civilians have been murdered on the streets of Kabul, and at least one thing has been revealed: The government is not able to protect the Hazara.
For that reason, calls for self-armament are becoming louder.
Recently, two massacres in Kabul's Dasht-e Barchi neighborhood, that is mainly inhabited by Hazara, have taken place. On September 5, bombings at a sports club killed 26 people, while on August 15, 40 students were killed by a suicide bomber inside a classroom.
"We don't have any trust or confidence in the government," Hassan Rahimi, a resident of Dasht-e Barchi, said.
Rahimi's 19-year-old twins were killed in the August 15 bombing as they sat in a classroom preparing for university entrance exams.
"People should take practical steps and take control of their own security. Nothing will come of this government." says Haidari, a resident of Darulaman, a neighborhood near Dasht-e Barchi.
Shi'ite Muslims make up around 15 percent of Afghanistan's population, which is largely Sunni. Hazaras account for 10 percent of the country's population and are the overwhelming majority of Shi'a in Afghanistan.
