Hazarajat
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The Hazarajat is the historic homeland of the Hazara people, in the central highlands of Afghanistan.
The Hazarajat is the mountainous region of central Afghanistan where Hazaras form the majority.1 Bamyan is its best-known city.
Hazara scholarship describes the region as having kept a degree of self-rule until the campaigns of Abdur Rahman Khan. Quoting the historian Sayed Askar Mousavi, Mehdi Hakimi records that after 1893 there were no signs of the region's former autonomy.2 In 1894 the government ordered the seizure of grazing land across the Hazarajat.2
From 1989, Hizb-i Wahdat governed most of the region. The Taliban took most of it in September 1998.1
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Footnotes
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Human Rights Watch, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, February 2001. ↩ ↩2
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Mehdi J. Hakimi, The Afghan State and the Hazara Genocide, Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 37, 2024. ↩ ↩2