Inside the deadly terrorist attack that killed dozens of Afghan school girls | Opinion
A view of the bloody books and supplies that left from Friday's suicide bomber attack on a Hazara education center, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Afghanistan's Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims, have been the target of a brutal campaign of violence for the past several years.
“There will be many more than 50 killed. I don’t know the exact figure, but I am witness [to] it. There were many more killed. As soon as they entered, many were shot by the gun only,” Basira, with a tough, small voice, tells me. “I was in the next class, next to the main one. There were 18 students. As soon as we heard the gunfire, we locked the door on the inside so they couldn’t come in.”
“My memories aren’t cleaned up. I can’t eat,” another girl, trembling, whispers. “I have no appetite for anything.” “I came late to class and got a seat in the last part of the class, just before the boys,” Jameela says painfully.“My sister came earlier, and that is why she was in the front row,” Jameela continues. Her face creases with myriad emotions, from anguish to anger to utter depression and disbelief. “I don’t know what happened to her, but when I was able to look over, I saw that her face was burned. I recognized her only by her scarf.
“We need more security. With the current condition, who knows what will happen to us,” Aman, a 53-year-old Hazara, says, as if pleading for his words to be heard. “If the protection were there, the blast would not have happened.” Another echo of American violence. What will it take to protect our children?“The Taliban was 150 meters away from here when the bullets were fired. So they should have understood to come here fast,” another survivor, Zahra, informs me wincingly.
Throughout the two-decade U.S. occupation, Hazaras were included in a small number of government positions. Yet, structural prejudice continued in public sector jobs and in the allotment of foreign assistance and national budgets. Their ability to speak out and protest their hardships was further hamstrung by systematic violence and bombings at their community demonstrations.
The matter is quickly resolved once the local commander sees my permission letters from the Foreign Ministry and Kabul’s information and culture director. Then, I return to the learning center, where working feels like I am walking on eggshells around a crime scene, wrapped in suffering and frustration.
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