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My desperate journey with a human smuggler

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    I am a Hazara,
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    and the homeland
    of my people is Afghanistan.
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    Like hundreds and thousands
    of other Hazara kids,
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    I was born in exile.
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    The ongoing persecution
    and operation against the Hazaras
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    forced my parents to leave Afghanistan.
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    This persecution has had a long history
    going back to the late 1800s,
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    and the rule of King Abdur Rahman.
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    He killed 63 percent of Hazara population.
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    He built minarets with their heads.
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    Many Hazaras were sold into slavery,
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    and many others fled the country
    for neighboring Iran and Pakistan.
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    My parents also fled to Pakistan,
Title:
My desperate journey with a human smuggler
Speaker:
Barat Ali Batoor
Description:

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
10:37
  • The English transcript was updated on 5/7/2015. At 2:27, "and they are marginalized socially, educationally, and punished." was changed to ""and they are marginalized socially, educationally, and financially."

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