By: Rukhshana Media
Kabul University students were protesting Tuesday morning against the Taliban’s expulsion of female Hazara students from hostels and the University when they were dispersed by Taliban forces with bomb and death threats.
The students were demonstrating in a Kabul street with slogans such as, “Education is our red line”, “We are expelled for studying and being Hazaras”, and “Genocide is a crime” with more messages against targeted killings of Hazaras in Afghanistan.
Taliban forces surrounded the group and were told, “If we see you again, we will kill all of you.”
Hazara university students had previously been expelled from the university after they took part in demonstrations against the attack at Kaaj tuition center last month. Some students were also expelled for talking to the media about Hazara students at the Kabul University hostel who were reportedly poisoned to prevent them to joining the protest.
Mahjuba Habibi, who was at Tuesday’s protest, told Rukhshana Media that the Taliban threatened the students with a bomb by saying if they did not disperse there would be an explosion among them.
“We will shoot you in the head and kill you,” Ms Habibi said a Taliban officer told her, adding “You are shameless, you have no home and no family.”
“They called us the puppets of the West,”she said. “They told us, Go, get lost, you have made all the controversy in this country.”
Zarifa Yaqubi, another protester, said that the Taliban used obscene language and cursed at the protestors.
Many students have been protesting in solidarity with Hazara students who want justice for the attack at Kaaj tuition center in west Kabul. The suicide bomber shot at the students before detonating a bomb, killing 55 students and wounding 124 others, mostly young girls who had participated in a university entrance exam.
