| Title: | Politics and Modern History of Hazara: Sectarian Politics in Afghanistan |
| Citable URL: | http://hdl.handle.net/10427/35340 |
| Author: | Sarabi, Humayun |
| Date: | 2006 |
| Citation: | Sarabi, Humayun. "Politics and Modern History of Hazara: Sectarian Politics in Afghanistan." 2006. Tufts University. Digital Collections and Archives. Medford, MA. http://hdl.handle.net/10427/35340 Available from Tufts Digital Library, Digital Collections and Archives, Medford, MA. http://hdl.handle.net/10427/35340 |
| Rights: | http://dca.tufts.edu/ua/access/rights-creator.html |
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Abstract: Submitted in partial fulfillment of the degree Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Abstract: This is an excellent description of how sectarian politics in Afghanistan offered foreign powers an opportunity to intervene in Afghanistan's politics. This study is also important in terms of how external forces and internal conflicts combined to have disastrous consequences for the Hazara community in Afghanistan as Humayun Sarabi demonstrates, the use of sectarian division between the small Shii community and the two larger ethnic groups--Tajik and Pashtun. To finally explain what happened, the writer analyzed original sources that demonstrate how the Human Rights violations that took in siege of Kabul and the civil war that followed the defeat of the PDPA and during the rise of Taliban. This important work needs to profit the anthropological insights and the persistence of kinship and ethnic divisions of Afghanistan.