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The Hazara community in Quetta, in Pakistan, is reported to be the victim of persecution and violence. At least 1300 Hazara men, women and children have lost their lives and more than 1500 have been injured in Quetta in recent years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=International commission demanded to probe Hazara killings )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Insight: A brief history of Hazara persecution )〕 The Pakistani Sunni Muslim extremist militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, is assumed to be behind the attacks against Hazaras. Hazaras have been living in Pakistan since the 17th century, the whole region was known KHURASAN, later politically changed to Afghanistan,and few migrated later due to persecution by Emir Abdul Rahman Khan. The Hazaras are mainly Shiite Muslims in Sunni-dominated Pakistan and are easily identifiable due to their Mongoloid features.〔 The two Hazara enclaves —Alamdar Road and Hazara Town— are under constant barrage of attacks where armed killers patrol city streets executing Hazaras wherever they find them. Other groups find Hazaras easy target, frequently abducting for ransom and forcing them to sell their valuable businesses for pennies. Currently the 600,000 peaceful Hazara community are confined in an open-air jail – the 4 to 5 mile radius of two enclaves. While all Shia People killed and injured in Balochistan are 100% Hazaras, a statement from UN Sec General, as well as some of the main Local & International news sources have absolutely not a single mention of “Hazara.” ==Perpetrators== Acts of violence involving Sunni Muslims and their Shia counterparts in Pakistan have been evident since the 1980s. They are generally considered to have arisen from attempts by the then national leader, Zia ul-Haq, to legitimise his military dictatorship and from the influx of weapons into the country following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Although the perpetrators often do not claim responsibility for the attacks, expert analysis suggests that in recent times it is the Sunnis who are dominating the aggression and that they are motivated by the ideology of Al-Qaeda. The number of violent incidents has been increasing in recent years, although not all of them are classified by the police as being sectarian attacks.〔 Quetta, which is the capital of the Pakistani province of Balochistan, has seen numerous of these violent incidents. This is in part because of a separatist movement involving militants from the ethnic minority who desire greater autonomy and also because the Pakistani military is engaged in counter-insurgency operations near to the province's border with Afghanistan, where there is tribal strife that involves the Taliban and allied groups. It is widely assumed that the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Sunni Muslim extremist militant group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba, is behind the attacks on the Hazara community in the region. There are differences of opinion regarding whether LeJ is a breakaway group of a banned former political party, Sipah-e-Sahaba, or simply its armed wing.〔 The LeJ openly issues death threats to Hazaras through newspaper ads and describes them as ''wajib-ul-qatl'' (deserving of death). Many Hazaras believe that the perpetrators cannot possibly be operating independently. LeJ is believed to be one of many Pakistani terrorist groups which fought for Taliban against the United Front in Afghanistan in the 1990s. It is also suggested that the country's security establishment might be trying to provoke the Hazara against other ethnic groups in the province as most of the terrorist organizations in Pakistan are allegedly supported by the country's military establishment. The Pakistani Army and its intelligence wing, the ISI, have accused foreign interference in Balochistan's affairs, without directly responding to allegations against themselves for allowing the banned terrorist organizations to operate freely and with complete impunity.〔Deadly Connections: States That Sponsor Terrorism By Daniel Byman, ISBN 0-521-83973-4, 2005, Cambridge University Press, pp 155〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Persecution of Hazara people in Quetta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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