Years after Hashim Khan’s death, still his decree is strongly in force!
Written by Jafar Rezayee
Translated by Amin Wahidi
Sometime ago, MoD or the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan announced that the number of soldiers of the army will be doubled within next four years. Good news it would be to hear about formation of an army in a militated and chaotic country like Afghanistan but the concern is about the fair and just ethnic composition in such an army that is called national.
In spite of lies of leaders of Hezb e Wahdat who call the Hazara people for silence and obedience of the current government when ever they have a chance to preach for them, claiming that justice and equality is applied through out the country but the reality is totally different.
Coincidently with the MoD announcement, the Economist Magazine published a report about the ANA which had a remark on the low presence of the Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmens and other deprived minority ethnicities of Afghanistan. A part of that report was translated and posted on BBC Persian website but it is clear that as always, this time either BBC didn’t publish the parts that were a bit critical on the Afghan government regarding unjust treatment with the minor or deprived ethnicities. But for sure there are always people who read the BBC English about Afghanistan and easily find the differences of such censors between English and Persian versions of the same report about the Hazaras of Afghanistan and Karzai’s insufficiency that have been many times criticized in the English version but were never published on the Persian version of BBC so far.
Written by Jafar Rezayee
Translated by Amin Wahidi
Sometime ago, MoD or the Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan announced that the number of soldiers of the army will be doubled within next four years. Good news it would be to hear about formation of an army in a militated and chaotic country like Afghanistan but the concern is about the fair and just ethnic composition in such an army that is called national.
In spite of lies of leaders of Hezb e Wahdat who call the Hazara people for silence and obedience of the current government when ever they have a chance to preach for them, claiming that justice and equality is applied through out the country but the reality is totally different.
Coincidently with the MoD announcement, the Economist Magazine published a report about the ANA which had a remark on the low presence of the Hazaras, Uzbeks, Turkmens and other deprived minority ethnicities of Afghanistan. A part of that report was translated and posted on BBC Persian website but it is clear that as always, this time either BBC didn’t publish the parts that were a bit critical on the Afghan government regarding unjust treatment with the minor or deprived ethnicities. But for sure there are always people who read the BBC English about Afghanistan and easily find the differences of such censors between English and Persian versions of the same report about the Hazaras of Afghanistan and Karzai’s insufficiency that have been many times criticized in the English version but were never published on the Persian version of BBC so far.
“However, the Economist Magazine, in addition to remark on the unjust representation of the Hazaras in the ANA, has quoted from a Hazara Officer in the Army that he has never been promoted because of his ethnicity and thus he is going to quit the army.”
That is not a Hazara officer’s predestination in the ANA but is the destiny of all Hazaras in the army as the facts show. Along the history, the Hazaras have always had a little presence in the army and still the decree of Hashim Khan is in force in the country against the Hazaras although not formally but in unwritten forms. In this decree it was stated that the Hazaras are not allowed to have access in higher levels of education and military schools. It seems that no one wants a Hazara work in a governmental office and have a personality.
Seeing the symbolic presence of the Hazaras as extras on the political stage of Afghanistan not only in Karzai’s cabinet and Afghanistan’s foreign political agencies but in the lower levels in the Army and Police as well, we can say, years after his death, still Hashim Khan’s decree is strongly in force.
Here there is no need to blame the people continuing Hashim khan’s movement but the silence of Hazara writers and intellectuals is questionable in this important period of time when the issue of social justice and ethnic equality is very critical for the Hazaras to get their rights as well as for all the other Afghans in Afghanistan.
Click Here to read The Economist Magazine report on ANA
Afghanistan’s army Good news from Arghandab
That is not a Hazara officer’s predestination in the ANA but is the destiny of all Hazaras in the army as the facts show. Along the history, the Hazaras have always had a little presence in the army and still the decree of Hashim Khan is in force in the country against the Hazaras although not formally but in unwritten forms. In this decree it was stated that the Hazaras are not allowed to have access in higher levels of education and military schools. It seems that no one wants a Hazara work in a governmental office and have a personality.
Seeing the symbolic presence of the Hazaras as extras on the political stage of Afghanistan not only in Karzai’s cabinet and Afghanistan’s foreign political agencies but in the lower levels in the Army and Police as well, we can say, years after his death, still Hashim Khan’s decree is strongly in force.
Here there is no need to blame the people continuing Hashim khan’s movement but the silence of Hazara writers and intellectuals is questionable in this important period of time when the issue of social justice and ethnic equality is very critical for the Hazaras to get their rights as well as for all the other Afghans in Afghanistan.
Click Here to read The Economist Magazine report on ANA
Afghanistan’s army Good news from Arghandab
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