The National, 28 April 2020
AAN’s Ali Yawar Adili is quoted here as saying:
Ali Yawar Adili, a researcher with the Afghanistan Analysts Network told The National “In recent years, the Taliban have recruited from other communities like Tajiks and Uzbeks. They seemed to feel a gap in their effort to portray themselves as a nationwide movement due to the lack of any significant influence among ethnic Hazaras.” (…)
“Afghan Hazaras suffered, perhaps more than any other ethnic group, under the Taliban and have continued to suffer from its insurgency. It is hard to imagine they will trust the Taliban that soon, especially given that they pushed into Hazara districts in Ghazni and Uruzgan in 2018 and have been carrying out attacks against certain Hazara villages in the north,” Mr Adili said.
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This article was last updated on 6 May 2020
