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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

1. Human Rights Watch, Massacres of Hazaras in Afghanistan, February 2001. ↩ ↩²

2. Mehdi J. Hakimi, The Afghan State and the Hazara Genocide, Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 37, 2024. ↩ ↩²