On Thursday, the Sept 12, 2024, around 13am, 17 men from the village of “Qarudal” of Sangtakht and Bandar Daykundi district go to Khamsafid passage- the border between Daykundi and Ghor – to welcome their travelers who had returned from the Karbala pilgrimage. Apart from Khamsafid passage in the interior of Ghor, in the area of “Palosang” valley, four-armed people on two motorcycles stopped these 17 people under the pretext of taking a group photo. Two of them take pictures and videos of them, and the other two shoot them. As a result, 14 people were killed and 4 people were injured.
I went to the area of the event and with the help of others, we sent the bodies to the village of Qarudal. Among the dead, there was a doctor from Ghor who was on his way to his examination room in Sangtakht and Bandar district at the time of the attack.
When I returned from Palosang, a village near the event site, it was dinner time; When going down from Khamsafid pass to the village of Qarudal, the sound of crying and wailing of women and children was loud from all the humble houses of the village. I came to the pulpit of the village mosque, 13 bodies
Were place beside each other.
There were three old men wandering there, acting as if they had lost something; Sometimes they went inside the pulpit and sometimes they came out and stared at the dead bodies. I approached one of those three old men and said, “Uncle?” He didn’t hear, I shook his arm with my hand, while tears were flowing from the corners of his eyes, he looked at me terrified and didn’t say anything. I asked him if there is no one to help them move the bodies or prepare for burial; But he still didn’t say anything. He took a look at the houses in the village and another look at the corpses that were placed together on the ground. He wanted to say that except for those three old men, there is no other man left alive in this small village. While the sound of screams and cries of women and children came out from the seams of the gates and holes of the houses and echoed in the mountains around the village, I moved away from there.
This is not the only incident of killing Hazaras in Afghanistan, especially in the three years of Taliban rule. In the last two years, the Taliban themselves attacked the village of Chahar Asiyab – Sarjangal and slaughtered and shot dead women and children.
Similarly, two years ago, in Sayuk of Daykundi, the Taliban directly attacked the local residents and killed a number of them.
For thousands of years, Hazaras have been a victim of killing by the ruling regime and unknown groups, which sometimes happens in educational centers, sometimes in religious places, and sometimes in the plains and mountains.
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