#StopHazaraGenocide
The explosion occurred in the western Kabul neighbourhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, which is home to the Hazara community and is primarily Shiite Muslim. The Hazara group has been the target of some of Afghanistan’s deadliest attacks.
Students were getting ready for a test when a suicide bomber targeted this learning facility. Unfortunately, there have been over 65 fatalities and dozen more injuried.
Students at Kaaj Higher Educational Center, mostly adult men and women, receive coaching as they get ready for entrance tests to universities.
Families hurried to the local hospitals, where names of the verified dead and injured were put on the walls and ambulances were bringing in victims.
A distraught lady searching for her sister at one of the hospitals told AFP, “We didn’t locate her here. Her age was 19 old”.
“We’ve called her, but she hasn’t returned our calls.”
The Taliban ordered victims’ families to leave at least one hospital out of concern about a potential follow-up attack on the populace.
Bloodied victims were seen being dragged away from the site in videos that were shared online and pictures that were released by local media.
The interior ministry’s spokesman, Abdul Nafy Takor, earlier tweeted that “security teams have arrived at the scene, the type of the attack and the specifics of the casualties will be announced later.”
“The enemy’s inhuman cruelty and lack of morality are demonstrated by their attacks on innocent targets.”
After the Taliban took back control of Afghanistan last year, the country’s two-decade war ended and there was a marked decrease in violence, but security has started to deteriorate again.
Shiite Hazaras in Afghanistan have long endured persecution, with the Taliban being blamed for mistreating them during their initial control from 1996 to 2001.
Once they returned to power, these accusations resumed.
The Islamic State militant organisation, a foe of the Taliban, frequently targets Hazaras in its attacks. They are seen as heretics by both.
The Dasht-e-Barchi neighbourhood has been ravaged by numerous attacks, many of which targeted women, children, and schools.
Before the Taliban took back authority in the region last year, three bombs detonated beside their school, killing at least 85 people, mostly female students, and injuring about 300 others.
25 people, including new mothers, were killed in a horrific gun attack on a maternity unit of a hospital in Dasht-e-Barchi in May 2020. The attack was attributed to the Taliban.
Additionally, two catastrophic bomb explosions in April of this year at two different educational facilities in the neighbourhood left at least 20 people injured.
