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Enlightenment Movement

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The Enlightenment Movement was a Hazara-led civil protest movement in Afghanistan, formed in 2016 over the route of a major power line.

The Enlightenment Movement, also translated as the Enlightening Movement, organised large peaceful protests in Kabul in 2016. Its demand was that a planned power line from Turkmenistan to Kabul run through Bamyan.12

For many supporters, the route stood for a much older grievance: the neglect of the Hazarajat by successive governments.

On 23 July 2016, its demonstration at Deh Mazang was struck by suicide bombers. See Deh Mazang bombing of 2016.

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Footnotes

  1. United Nations, UN report finds July attack on peaceful protests in Kabul 'may amount to a war crime', 2016. ↩

  2. Wikipedia, July 2016 Kabul bombing. ↩