KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of women on Saturday protested in Kabul after a suicide bombing on Friday killed 20 female students from the ethnic Hazara community.
About 30 women took part in the march from Pul-i-Sukhtar area to Mohammad Ali Jinnah Hospital, where the injured girls were being treated, and sought justice.
The marchers chanted slogans “stop genocide of Hazaras, silence is treason, Justice, Justice, we are tired of ignorance.”
Friday’s bombing targeting the Kaaj Educational Centre in Dasht-i-Barchi area of Kabul was the latest in a string of recent attacks against the minority community that left at least 19 dead and dozens injured – mostly students who were sitting the university entrance test.
The bombing drew wide condemnation and no group has so far claimed responsibility for it.
UNAMA Afghanistan tweeted: “Young women from Afghanistan’s Hazara Shia community reported make up majority of 60-plus killed and injured in Kabul collage attack.”
“Those responsible must face justice. Taliban must fulfill obligations to ensure safety of all Afghanistan. Education must be prejudice and violence free,” the tweet added.
Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the caretaker government, called the attack on Kaaj education center a “great horror” in a tweet and said urgent measures would be taken to arrest and punish the perpetrators of this attack.
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