Hazara Rights

Poets discover Hazara while NATO fails to protect them from terrorists

2014-02-16T22:06:48Z

The works of one hundred twenty five internationally recognized poets from sixty-eight countries have been published in a 600 page multilingual anthology and collaborative poem. Titled Poems for the Hazara, it's subject is the plight of the Hazara, one of the most persecuted political/ethnic groups in the world. The Hazara have suffered repeated acts of genocide, slavery, and forced displacement, since the beginning of the nineteenth century, due to their progressive religious beliefs and culture. For example, they strongly promote gender equality, encouraging women to participate fully in education, government, healthcare, work, and a broad range of activities outside the home.

A Turkic people, the Hazara people live primarily in Central Asian countries such as Afghanistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, and India. Millions of Hazara people throughout history have been forced to leave their original homeland— today called Afghanistan. Hundreds of thousands of Hazara have settled as refugees and political asylums in Europe, the Americas, and Australia.

The poems in this anthology are in seventeen original languages. All non-English poems have English translations. The cover features a representation of the flag of Hazaristan and an image of the ancient Buddha sculpture of Bamiyan, a principal symbol of Hazara history and culture. It was a well-known masterpiece of the visual and intangible heritage of humanity, and was destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001.
Hazara exiled poet and executive editor Kamran Mir Hazar says “this anthology not only contains poems for the Hazara, but poems that represent world poetry today. It includes modern Japanese Haiku, an abstract poem of Brazil, Latin American magic realism, contemporary forms of stream of consciousness, and philosophic European poetry as well as fluid forms of African poetry.

While thousands of international troops are in Afghanistan, the Hazara remain in danger in their own homeland. They face systematic discrimination and attacks from the Taliban and their agents.

Japanese poet and director of the World Haiku Association Ban'ya Natsuishi says “to our displeasure, the history of some people, like the Hazara's is often distorted or destroyed. The Hazara people of central Asia overlapped various cultures; they enriched our civilization. Here we ardently dedicate our various poems in various languages to encourage the Hazara to restore their honor.”

French Mauritian poet Khal Torabully a contributor to this anthology said: “The Hazara, as a people have survived ruthless oppression. As natural poets they have flown the colorful kites of life … Too often, they have travelled in wordlessness. But the time has come to castigate the plight of the voiceless. Poetry, the soul of their language, has travelled with them, across all borders. The HAZARA poems bear witness to their irrepressible presence. Read it, and see how the poem mirrors their freedom and ours.”
Catalan poet, actress, and playwright Angelina Llongueras says “Writing a poem for the Hazara forces you to look at your own history of oppression. It contributes to a deeper understanding of the diversity of cultures in Afghanistan - thus of the world. It makes you confront the fact that all of us count as voices to put an end to the violence and insanity, that drive to extinction, so many people in the world, for simply existing and being who they are. The Hazara are us, we are the Hazara.

In addition to the anthology, the book includes a unique multiform collaborative poem, to which 23 poets from around the world contributed.

An open letter addressed to world leaders in support of the Hazara is an important addendum. It is signed by 354 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize-winners as well as presidents of international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 96 countries.

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Book information:
Title: Poems for the Hazara: A Multilingual Poetry Anthology and Collaborative Poem by 125 Poets from 68 Countries
Executive Editor Kamran Mir Hazar
Hardcover and paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: Full Page Publishing (2014)
Language: English
ISBN-13/ hardcover: 978-0983770824 / ISBN-13/ paperback: 978-0983770862
Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
Languages: English, Spanish, Catalan, Japanese, Norwegian, Turkey, Hazaragi, Italian, Greek, German, Irish, Hebrew, Romanian, French, Armenian, Hungarian and Portuguese
Available in all major online bookstores such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble

Hazara Critical Condition: at least 33 killed and 60 injured in Quetta

2013-06-30T23:30:00Z

Hazara Critical Condition: at least 28 killed and 60 injured in Quetta
Videos taken by Hazara witnesses in Hazara Town show no medical aid to Hazara victims.

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Poets from 88 Countries Demand Halt to Genocide against Hazara

2013-02-08T13:00:00Z

273 noted poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national literary prize winners as well as presidents of international poetry festivals, presidents of PEN clubs, and writers associations from 88 countries have signed an open letter to world leaders, declaring their solidarity with the Hazara people. For more than a century, the Hazara people of Afghanistan and Pakistan have been victims of systematic crimes such as genocide, slavery, sexual abuse, war crimes and discrimination.
The letter is addressed to The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, and President of the United States, Barack Obama, asking them to take steps to insure the security and safety of the Hazara people.

Hazara poet, Kamran Mir Hazar, who crafted the letter notes, “Article two of the Convention on Genocide describes the dire situation of the Hazaras, and the world must no longer ignore the ongoing ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Hazaras.”
In Afghanistan, even with thousands of international troops deployed, Hazaras are regularly attacked by Afghan Kuchis, backed by the Taliban and the Afghan government. Hazara roads are blocked by Taliban gunmen. Hazara cars are halted and its passengers murdered. In central Afghanistan, a huge population of Hazaras is marginalized, and is denied basic legal rights.

As a result, millions of Hazaras have fled Afghanistan, creating terrible and unnecessary refugee situations in countries like Turkey, Greece, Australia, and Indonesia. In Pakistan as recently as Thursday, January 10, 2013, more than one-hundred Hazaras were killed in an organized terrorist attack in Quetta, Pakistan.
Poets world-wide ask world leaders to declare of a state of emergency regarding the Hazara situation in Afghanistan; to pressure Afghan and Pakistani governments to stop discrimination and stop supporting terrorists groups; to grant asylum to Hazara asylum seekers; establish an international Truth Commission to investigate systematic crimes against Hazaras; to open cases concerning genocide and human rights violations in international courts such as the ICC; to protect Hazaras in Afghanistan with international troops. We appeal to international media to investigate and report on activities against Hazaras, in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Open Letter from Poets World-wide with signers is available in English, Spanish, Italian, Hazaragi/Dari, and Azeri languages on www.HazaraRights.com

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For more information contact Kamran Mir Hazar at email: kamran@kamranmirhazar.com Skype: kamran.mir.hazar

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2013-02-06T00:24:00Z

It is reported that the Ameer of Afghanistan has sold 10,000 Hazara captives to pay the expenses incurred in suppressing the revolt.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 9508, 20 October 1893, Page 2

An open letter from World-wide Poets addressed to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, and President of the United States, Barack Obama.
Release date and time: 2/7/2013 21:00 (CET)
تاریخ انتشار نامه شاعران جهان در حمایت از مردم هزاره: هفتم ماه فبروری ساعت 21 به وقت اروپای مرکزی