Thank your for this article. I was only vaguely aware of the plight of the Hazaras, mainly because of controversy here over whether Hazaras are being persecuted in Afghanistan, and therefore whether it is safe to send Hazara refugees home.

I would be interested yo hear what you think Australians could do to affect the situation.

Australia won't do anything, they are in the courts fighting for the right to deport hazara refugees to Afghanistan to die.

Marilyn,
would you rather they come here & practice on Australians ? You really are off the planet girly.

Practice what?

We have to realise that Muslims have been demonised so the Western Oligarchs can steal their oil.911 was the lie to initiate it. http://www.ae911truth.org/

I wouldn't like to be a Hazara, Ahmadiya or a Shia in Pakistan.

Pakistan's one and only science Nobel Prize winner, Abdus Salaam, left his home country because of the persecution of his fellow Ahamdiya.

I also would not like to be a Sunni in Iraq right now. (Most of the Christians have already left).

Then again I would not like to be a Christian or Alawite in Syria. I think it will go hard with them once the Assad regime falls.

I would not like to be a North Korean of any description. North Korea is one great big prison.

I would not like to be a Turkish Kurd or a Sri Lankan Tamil.

I would not like to be a Copt in Egypt.

I would not like to be a Uighur in China.

I would definitely not like to be a woman in Afghanistan. It's bad enough now. It will be worse when the Taliban returns.

Come to think of it I would not like to be a woman in the tribal areas of Pakistan either.

I definitely would not like to be a Darfuri.

I am not trying to minimise the plight of your people Mr. Hekmat but, in truth, the media are very selective about whose suffering they deign to notice.

Here's some advice.

Find a way of blaming Israelis for your predicament. That will guarantee you attention.

Short of that I'm afraid you'll just have to suffer in silence.

:-(

C'est la guerre