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As part of a large and coordinated onslaught of Taliban on Hazara dominated rural areas of Central Afghanistan, known as Hazarajat, Indigenous Hazara farmers are being forced to leave their homes and ancestral lands across Afghanistan such in Gizab region of Daikundi, in Dashti Barchi Kabul, in the province of Helmand and in the district of Qubat Al-Islam in the city of Mazari Sharif. Thousands of Hazaras are forced to leave or face death and torture, strikingly similar to a century earlier in Hazarajat during the reign of Abdur Rahman Khan. What has been happening in Daikundi is not a new narrative and has been happening for hundreds of years now as part of a larger project to ethnically cleanse and rid Hazaras of their ancestral lands and distribute it amongst Abdur Rahman loyalists in 1890’s and onwards, and presently to the Taliban and their sympathisers and particularly ‘Kuchies’ or nomads. In the past 20 years, Hazaras have mainly been pro-democracy, who especially have focused on education
