Posted on Jan 17, 2023
Hazara refugees build a new home in Kansas City, but want help for loved ones in Afghanistan
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Kansas City-area members of Afghanistan's Hazara ethnic minority — some new arrivals since the U.S. evacuation in 2021 — are creating a community and celebrating traditions here while trying to call attention to the risk of genocide back in Afghanistan.
Aziz Nadim works as a bank teller in Gardner, Kansas. He is among approximately 750 refugees who came to Kansas City after United States forces left Afghanistan in 2021.
Since the Taliban took power, Nadim is worried about the future of his friends and family — his fellow members of the Hazara ethic minority who have long been targets of violence.
"The Taliban have resumed the process of massacre of Hazara that started a century ago,” Nadim said, “and they are trying to hand over the lands and properties of Hazara to the individuals and groups they support.”
Aziz Nadim works as a bank teller in Gardner, Kansas. He is among approximately 750 refugees who came to Kansas City after United States forces left Afghanistan in 2021.
Since the Taliban took power, Nadim is worried about the future of his friends and family — his fellow members of the Hazara ethic minority who have long been targets of violence.
"The Taliban have resumed the process of massacre of Hazara that started a century ago,” Nadim said, “and they are trying to hand over the lands and properties of Hazara to the individuals and groups they support.”
Hazara refugees build a new home in Kansas City, but want help for loved ones in Afghanistan
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."Ali Mosawi, a young Hazara man, coordinated this ceremony in the Northeast neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, inviting Hazara families from as far away as Wichita and Manhattan, Kansas. They celebrated with bolani (flatbread stuffed with vegetables), ashak (vegetable dumplings) and ash (a vegetable noodle soup).
“We brought traditional Hazara dishes, we wore our cultural traditional clothes, we ate together and told our historical story to their children,” Mosawi said.
“We want to make sure that our children don’t forget their native language,” Rahimi said. “We lost our homeland. At least in the last two decades Hazara people were a part of a new Afghanistan. We had our own self rule, governing education, medicine, health and sport. Hazara women also prospered. They had a good chance to bring changes to their life.”
He said Hazara families want to teach their children to work hard to build their future in the United States and to be true to the values of this country, but not forget that their families came from a country where their next generation is facing genocide."
..."Ali Mosawi, a young Hazara man, coordinated this ceremony in the Northeast neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri, inviting Hazara families from as far away as Wichita and Manhattan, Kansas. They celebrated with bolani (flatbread stuffed with vegetables), ashak (vegetable dumplings) and ash (a vegetable noodle soup).
“We brought traditional Hazara dishes, we wore our cultural traditional clothes, we ate together and told our historical story to their children,” Mosawi said.
“We want to make sure that our children don’t forget their native language,” Rahimi said. “We lost our homeland. At least in the last two decades Hazara people were a part of a new Afghanistan. We had our own self rule, governing education, medicine, health and sport. Hazara women also prospered. They had a good chance to bring changes to their life.”
He said Hazara families want to teach their children to work hard to build their future in the United States and to be true to the values of this country, but not forget that their families came from a country where their next generation is facing genocide."
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These are the people they created "seeking political asylum" for, not the millions that are currently invading our Country.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-brings-immigrants-to-the-united-states.html
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/what-brings-immigrants-to-the-united-states.html
What Brings Immigrants To The United States?
People come to begin a new life in the US for a wide variety of reasons. In 2017, over 44 million people in the US were born someplace else.
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