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Kabul neighbourhood, home to Hazaras, stunned by wave of attacks


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Taliban has since scaled down its attacks against US forces but continues to target Afghan forces across the country.Despite the threats, the neighbourhood – with its mostly dirt roads that stretch out for kilometers – remains a vibrant, bustling home to hundreds of thousands of people who know their ethnicity and geographic location make them clear targets.Fereshta, a college student originally from Maidan Wardak province, admits to the terror that looms over one of Kabul’s most congested neighbourhoods.“You can’t escape the fear, it’s all around,” the 20-year-old said outside a small neighbourhood grocery store.Fereshta blames everyone, from the Taliban – who were known to attack and kill thousands of Hazaras during their five-year rule – to ISIL, to the Afghan government for the rising insecurity of Hazaras.“When an area gets attacked repeatedly over the course of five years and the government isn’t actively trying to secure it, it raises a lot of questions,” an academic in the area, who did not wish to be named for security reasons, said.Zainab Zafarkhil moved to Dasht-e Barchi from Iran in 2007. We just have to hope for the best here.” Hussain says even if his family were to return to Lal Wa Sarjangal, there would not be enough economic opportunities for them to support the family.Qayoom Suroush, a Kabul-based researcher, says that like Hussain and his wife, tens of thousands of families moved from other provinces to Barchi specifically because of economics, security and culture.“In Barchi you are among your own people, you don’t have to worry about social acceptance here, because everyone is like you,” Suroush says of the cultural incentive that draws so many Hazaras to the neighbourhood.Many residents Al Jazeera spoke to referred to the importance of being close to family and how living in Barchi makes it much easier for them to attend local religious and political gatherings that are considered vital parts of their social life.Additionally, having spent the last 16 years living and studying in Barchi, Suroush says the quality of education available to young people in Barchi is also very important to people coming from some of the least secure and undeveloped areas of the country.“Education is very important to the Hazara people.

As said here by Ali M Latifi