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Every year we dig mass graves : the slaughter of Pakistan’s Hazara Shah Meer Baloch in Quetta
Ahmed Shah had always dreamed of bigger things. Though just 17, the high school pupil had taken a job in the coalmines of Balochistan, Pakistan’s south-western province, one of the harshest, most dangerous working environments in the world. Shah was determined to earn enough to educate himself, so he could escape the tough life of the Hazara Shia community, the most persecuted minority in Pakistan.
But Shah never saw a brighter future. He was among 10 miners who were resting in their mud hut near the mines in the small Balochistan town of Mach when armed militants burst in. A gruesome video from the scene shows the young men blindfolded, with their hands tied behind their backs. A security official said their throats had been slit. Islamic State claimed responsibility for the massacre.
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Pakistan: No end to Quetta sit-in until PM ensures justice, say Hazara mournersInternational 2021-01-06, by Editor Comments Off 2
QUETTA: Members of the Hazara community who have blockaded a highway in Quetta with the bodies of slain coal miners said on Tuesday they will not withdraw until Prime Minister Imran Khan meets them and the killers are brought to justice.
Islamic State militants slit the throats of 11 miners in a residential compound near a mine site in Balochistan on Sunday, filming the entire incident and later posting it online.
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Actor mourns slain coal miners who were attacked, murdered and filmed by militants
Thousands of mourners from the Shia Hazara community on Monday protested alongside the bodies of miners killed in an attack in Balochistan s Mach coal field area.
The 11 miners were kidnapped before dawn on Sunday as they slept near the remote coal mine in the mountainous area 60 kilometres southeast of Quetta. The attack was claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group.
Up to 2,500 protesters gathered with eight of the bodies in coffins and blocked a bypass on the outskirts of Quetta, demanding justice. “We will not end our protest until the arrest of all the assassins,” chief of Balochistan Shia Conference, Agha Daud, told