Hazaras In The Kite Runner

Everyone who reads the Kite Runner will stir up empathy inside them for the Hazaras, the reason is lying in the accurate representation of racial devaluation. In august of 1998 Taliban forces killed roughly 8000 Hazara men, women and children in one city. Mass murders like that were not happening before the Taliban took over Afghanistan, but the life of a Hazara was still far from easy. The relationship between pre-Taliban rule and during is the fact that large groups of people saw Hazaras as less than human. However 1996 the Taliban began to express their beliefs more than they had ever done before brutally killing thousands of Hazaras, and forcing them into miserable lives. Presently the rule of the Taliban is history but the murders are not, many people are still losing their lives because of the extremists remaining in this group. Although the Hazaras of today somehow have a brighter future than they ever could have imagined 15 years ago. The racial blustering from the Pashtuns was gruesome, the Taliban only proved them self to be inhumanly worse, but through it, the Hazaras have found success. The life of a Hazara was safer before the Taliban came to power, but they were still severely highlighted as the outsiders and inhuman
The relentless Pashtuns constructed a tough life on the Hazaras as can be seen in the Kite Runner, but some seemed to still gather happiness with the little freedom they had. Once the Taliban came to power the most gruesome days of the Hazaras had just become, as everyone feared for their life. The present life of a Hazara and potential they are granted is only something dreamed of during their darkest years. The relationship between Pashtuns and Hazaras has now been remolded into a life lived with each other, in further equality then ever experienced