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Taliban’s Arrest Of Ethnic Uzbek Commander Sparks Clashes In Northern Afghanistan

29th January, 2022 · admin

Bruce Pannier Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 29, 2022 Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan in August, information has trickled in about tensions building between the ethnic Uzbek, Turkmen, and Tajik communities in parts of northern Afghanistan and the mainly Pashtun Taliban fighters who have moved to the area in recent months. The

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, NRF - National Resistance Front, Political News, Security, Taliban | Tags: Faryab, Makhdoom Alam, Pashtun Taliban, Pashtunization, Taliban ethnically cleansing Northern Afghanistan, Turkmen, Turks in Afghanistan, Uzbeks |
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Taliban Accused Of Forcibly Evicting Ethnic Uzbeks, Turkmen In Northern Afghanistan

9th December, 2021 · admin

By Zarif Nazar Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 9, 2021 Taliban fighters have been accused of helping to forcibly evict more than 1,000 people in northern Afghanistan, with the evictions targeting members of the ethnic Uzbek and Turkmen communities. Ethnic Uzbeks and Turkmen allege that Pashtuns seized their homes and land in the

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, History, Taliban | Tags: Amir Abdul Rahman, ethnic cleansing, Jowzjan, Kuchis, Pashtun Taliban, Pashtunization, Taliban ethnically cleansing Northern Afghanistan, Turkmen, Turks in Afghanistan, Uzbeks |
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Taliban removing Turks from their lands and giving it to Pashtuns

29th November, 2021 · admin

BBC: A group of locals in the northern Afghan province of Jawzjan have reportedly been forced to “migrate”. A number of Uzbek / Uzbek and Turkmen residents in Jowzjan’s Qushtepe district say “houses and thousands of acres of land have been confiscated by nomads” and that Taliban officials have “imprisoned protesters”. Click here to read

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Posted in Ethnic Issues, Human Rights, Taliban | Tags: Destruction of non Pashtun history and culture by Pashtun Taliban, Jowzjan, Pashtunization, Pashtuns, Turkmen, Turks in Afghanistan, Uzbeks |
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Child’s Abduction Rattles Afghanistan’s Turkmen Minority

6th March, 2021 · admin

Zarif Nazar Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 5, 2021 The abduction of a child in northern Afghanistan has shocked the country’s Turkmen minority. It has prompted members of the community to shut the country’s northern river ports and border crossings with its Central Asian neighbors and hold protests both in Afghanistan and elsewhere

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Posted in Afghan Children, Crime and Punishment, Security | Tags: Kidnapping, Turkmen |
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In Northern Afghanistan, A Tent Is A One-Room Schoolhouse

3rd August, 2017 · admin

August 3, 2017: In Afghanistan’s northern Balkh Province, ethnic Turkmen kids attend class every day in a small tent — the only school available in their area. There are few books, and no chairs or desks. Some teachers have faced threats from violent extremists, but they remain committed to educating the next generation, whatever the

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Posted in Afghan Children, Education | Tags: Balkh, Turkmen |

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