An interview with HRW’s Ali Dayan Hasan about the state and predicament of Shia Hazaras of Quetta
LUBP Editor’s note: In the following interview, HRW’s Pakistan Director Ali Dayan Hasan informs us about the plight of Shia Hazara Muslims of Balochistan, one of the most persecuted and target killed communities in Pakistan, who are being killed because of their faith (Shia sect) by Deobandi militants (variously known as Taliban (ak TTP) and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (aka ASWJ-LeJ)).
The most important part in the interview is where Ali Dayan Hasan hints towarrds the possible nexus between the pro-TTP-ASWJ elements in Pakistan army and the terrorists. This is the very section of Pakistan’s security agencies which was described by Benazir Bhutto Shaheed as rogue elements in Pakistan army — eg the faithful followers of Generals Zia-ul-Haq, Asla Beg and Hamid Gul. There is a possibility that the rogue, Deobandi-Salafi elements in Pakistan army, FC and ISI are actively supporting the ASWJ-TTP terroris and/or are reluctant to take action against them. Particularly in view of the fact that two known ASWJ-LeJ leaders in Balochistan, namely Ramzan Mengal Deobandi and Rafiq Mengal Deobandi, enjoy visible support and protection of Pakistan army, and also in view of the inexplicable escape of ASWJ-LeJ terrorists (eg Dawood Badini, Usman Saifullah Kurd) from Pakistan army-controlled high security prison in Quetta, Ali Dayan Hasan’s statement is not without substance. In fact this statement can be used by international and national human rights groups and judicial institutes to commission an inquiry into Pakistan army’s nexus with its strategic Jihadi Deobandi assets and its implications for Pakistan’s Shia, Sunni Sufi/Barelvi and other persecuted groups. On a different note, two issues which are missing in Ali Dayan’s interview are the lack of identification of the terrorists who are killing Shias across Pakistan including Shia Hazaras of Quetta. They are Takfiri Deobandi terrorists. Just as we clearly identify Shia Hazas, a sub-group of Shias, we should also clearly identify Takfiri Deobandis, a sub-group of Sunni Deobandi sect. Also, ignored in the interview is the fact that hundreds of non-Hazara Shias too have been target killed in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan in recent years. In fact the relative proportion (with respect to the size of their population) of the Baloch, Pashtun, Punjabi Shia Muslims killed in Balochistan is no less than the proportion of Shia Hazaras. https://lubpak.com/archives/64797 This fact about Shia killings in Quetta is, however, ignored in media accounts where Shia identity is usually presented as Hazara while Deobandi identity of terrorists is deleted. (end note).
Interview: A state of siege
Interviewer: Madeeha Syed (Source: Dawn)
A year after the deadly attacks on the Hazara community, what is the situation now?
While Shias across Pakistan have faced increasingly vicious attacks, a disproportionate number of attacks – the latest being the Jan 21st attack on a pilgrim’s bus in Mastung – have targeted the small Hazara community. Of Shias killed across Pakistan in 2012, around a quarter of the victims were Quetta Hazaras. In 2013, a little under half of those killed were from that community. It is true that major attacks on the scale of January and February 2013 have not taken place since last year. But major attacks are only one aspect of the crisis faced by the community. Survivors and family members of victims describe the effects of a campaign of killings that has targeted all segments of the Hazara community. Hazaras live a ghetto existence, fearful of going about the normal business of life. Hazara religious pilgrims, students, shopkeepers, vegetable sellers, doctors and other professionals have been targeted leading to not just widespread fear but increasingly restricted movement leading to a ghettoisation of community members, increasing economic hardship and curtailed access to education.
How many are opting to flee their homes? And where are they going?
Large numbers are fleeing Pakistan in panic and seeking asylum abroad, even risking their lives in the process. Unable to cope with death stalking them at every turn, many hundreds have fled Quetta for Karachi or other parts of Pakistan. Yet further hundreds have fled Pakistan altogether. Those fleeing usually seek to go to Australia risking a dangerous sea journey that has repeatedly proved fatal. In April 2013, some 60 Hazaras died when their boat sunk in Indonesian waters enroute Australia. These journeys are not only dangerous and expensive, they are often deadly. Almost 1,000 people have died on the crossing from Indonesia to Australia over the last decade — scores of them Hazaras from Pakistan.
What is the Hazara’s relationship with the Frontier Corps (FC) in Balochistan?
It is a complicated relationship. It would be correct to say that the Frontier Corps has done a better job in recent months of preventing the sorts of large-scale attacks we saw a year ago. And whatever reservations the Hazara community may have about elements of the FC, the fact remains that it is the lead security agency in Quetta.
But the problem remains that the FC is unable to disarm the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) or meaningfully protect the Hazara from attacks. Further, it does not help that a small but significant body of opinion with Pakistan’s law enforcement agencies, paramilitary forces and intelligence agencies appear to view the Hazara with suspicion — as “agents of Iran” and “untrustworthy.”
And while there is no formal policy of tolerance for extremist elements such as the LJ at work, it is not possible to say yet with any certainty that there are no extremist sympathisers within lead law enforcement and security agencies. The matter is further complicated because elements from the security apparatus can be complicit in extremist attacks or turn a blind eye to them not out of conviction but also out of fear. But the fact remains that the FC has to be part of the solution.
There is a new government in Balochistan and more and more people have been raising their voice in support of the Hazara community. Has that brought about any changes at all?
While large-scale attacks have not taken place since the new Balochistan government took over in June, it remains the case that Pakistan’s federal government, the criminal justice system and the country’s military and its intelligence agencies continue to play the role of unconcerned bystanders as Shia across the country are slaughtered. Pakistan’s political leaders, law enforcement agencies, administrative authorities, judiciary and military need to prevent these attacks as they would any other threat to the state. Pakistan’s authorities must act urgently to end the state of deadly siege the Hazara and other Shia communities find themselves living under.
The Hazara are being killed not because they are party to a conflict but because they are helpless targets of murderous rage. They are killed not in combat but as they go about their daily lives — praying, selling and buying vegetables, boarding busses to go to work or college or travelling.
Of course, the Balochistan government has to be given both the benefit of the doubt and a fair chance. CM Malik is a highly respected figure. But equally, it remains true, as was the case with the previous provincial government, that the Balochistan provincial administration is only nominally responsible for security. That authority rests with the military through the FC and the intelligence agencies operating in the province. Unless these actors adopt a zero tolerance policy towards the LJ and other extremist actors, there is little the provincial government can do.
Has anyone to date ever been held accountable for any incidence of violence against the Hazara community?
There are sporadic crackdowns. Extremists are arrested. Some are even convicted. But often they are released without trial or conviction after a crisis has passed. Several high profile convicts have escaped from police and military custody in inexplicable circumstances in the past. The courts, even when they have been proactive in other areas such as disappearances, have been hesitant to provide protection to the Hazara or hold their attackers accountable. There has been no meaningful accountability.
Why are the Hazaras targeted specifically and so often?
Hazaras are generally unarmed, easily identifiable and utterly helpless — in short, easy to kill. Of course, they are being targeted as part of a broader exercise in targeting all Pakistani Shias but it is equally true that the Hazara suffer from double jeopardy — being ethnically distinct in addition to being Shia.
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As shameful as it is that it took the government so long, and so many needless deaths, before it accepted that the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi is on a quest to eliminate Shias from Balochistan, there is a glimmer of hope that it may finally have recognised reality. The brazen attack on a bus of Hazara Shias in Mastung and the peaceful, nationwide two-day protests that followed seemed to have woken the government up. Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, whose response to the militant wave of terror has been tepid at best thus far, promised a targeted operation against the LeJ. That was followed by the apprehension of three suspects linked to the Mastung bombing. Only time will tell if the operation is only a PR exercise meant to appease the understandably outraged Shia community or a sincere effort to no longer tolerate the existence of such a hateful terror group. Previous attacks on Shias, especially Hazaras, have been met with state indifference. The paramilitary troops in Balochistan have preferred to go after nationalists with legitimate grievances against the centre rather than hateful terror groups. Expecting that policy to be reversed may be too optimistic but to at least treat the LeJ as a genuine threat to peace is the least we can expect from the government.
Should there be a change in tack, credit for that exclusively belongs to the Shia community, with its show of peaceful restraint. The bodies of those killed in Mastung were finally buried on Friday, but for two days before that the 27 dead showed us the outcome of decades of official patronage of militant groups that tolerate no sect other than their own.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-8-228551-After-the-funerals
A Human Rights Watch report this week said LeJ operated with “virtual impunity across Pakistan, as law enforcement officials either turn a blind eye or appear helpless to prevent attacks”. More than 400 Shias were killed in targeted attacks across the country in 2013, the rights group said.
Prime Minister (PM) Nawaz Sharif asked Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar and Information Minister Pervez Rashid to visit Quetta and convince the protesting families to bury their relatives. Many ministers from the provincial government tried to solve the issue but the protestors refused to end their sit-in. It is good that the PM sent a high profile delegation and ultimately the government succeeded in convincing the victims of the Hazara killings to bury their dear ones. The matter however is not that simple. Unless the government succeeds in stopping the incremental genocide of Shia Hazaras by the LeJ, any act to console the victims will remain cosmetic. The LeJ is a known, banned terrorist organisation. Their hideouts are all in the full glare of the police and security establishment. But since their presence is heavily concentrated in southern Punjab, the Punjab government previously and now is loathe to take any concerted action. This discrimination, where Punjab is being ‘saved’ at the cost of other provinces is giving a bad name to the government. Just as the PM said the other day, we are in an extraordinary situation, which requires extraordinary steps to tackle the situation. The same thinking is required against the terrorists’ stronghold in Punjab. It is time for some hard thinking on the part of the PML-N.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/25-Jan-2014/killing-of-hazara-shias
Can anyone from Dawn or Pakistani media explain: Why is Hazara identity of Shias highlighted but Deobandi identity of terrorists deleted?
In this piece in Dawn, Fouzia Nasir Ahmad deltes #Shia identity of Hazaras and Deobandi identity of ASWJ-LeJ. http://www.dawn.com/news/1082698/know-my-name
In this piece in Dawn, Syed Ali Shah deltes #Shia identity of Hazaras and #Deobandi identity of ASWJ-LeJ. http://www.dawn.com/news/1082699/haunted-by-horror
In this piece in Dawn, Ahmed Yusuf deltes #Shia identity of Hazaras and #Deobandi identity of ASWJ-LeJ http://www.dawn.com/news/1082696/no-exit
In this piece in Dawn, an agency-linked HDP propagandist (based in Sweden, NOT Quetta) Saleem Javed deletes the Shia identity of Hazaras and Deobandi identity of ASWJ-LeJ terrorists: http://www.dawn.com/news/1082637/hopelessness-vs-helplessness/2
The above sample confirm a systematic attempt in Pakistani media to obfusacte and hide the nature of #ShiaGenocide by #Deobandi terrorists, a fact which is also mentioned in LUBP’s editorial note in this post: https://lubp.net/archives/302577
I must say, as very much as I enjoyed reading what you had to say, I couldnt help but lose interest after a while. Its as if you had a fantastic grasp to the subject matter, but you forgot to include your readers. Perhaps you should think about this from extra than 1 angle. Or maybe you shouldnt generalise so a lot. Its better if you think about what others may have to say instead of just heading for a gut reaction to the subject. Think about adjusting your personal thought process and giving others who may read this the benefit of the doubt.
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