Barat Ali Batoor, a Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, told a forum he had hoped that Labor in government would be better than its predecessor, but that it is imposing a 鈥渂rutal regime鈥.聽Chris Slee reports.
Hazara community
President Ashraf Ghani鈥檚 first visit to Australia prompted a sizable protest on April 3 among the Australian Hazara community amid claims of institutional discrimination against Hazaras in Afghanistan.
Numbering thousands, peaceful protesters gathered from across the country and demanded from the Afghan President equality, fair distribution of resources, and an end to governmental discrimination.
Hundreds of Afghans attended a candlelight vigil on the evening of July 27 to commemorate the horrific attack on protestors the previous weekend in Kabul, which left 80 civilians dead and 230 wounded.