25. "Most #Hazara men were killed during the fight which spanned from 1891 to 1893. Dr Lee says that over 50 percent of the Hazara "male population" died as "a direct or indirect result of the war." This is, in my personal opinion, a very reasonable figure.
26. "Most for the Hazara women and children were taken captive and sold as slaves. Throughout the country, #Hazaras constituted the overwhelming majority of slaves in the bazaars. In fact there were so many that they greatly decreased the prices of slaves.
27. "According to Dr Lee, "thousands of [Hazara] women were forcibly married to #Pashtuns in a deliberate attempt to destroy #Hazara social and religious hierarchies."
28. "Abdur Rahman Khan profited most from the war. The government taxed both the sale of #Hazara slaves and their usurped lands and in the process exacting both "ushr" (tithe) and "khums"
29. "Some #Pashtun government officials gave their co-ethnics interest-free loans from the so-called Bayt-ul-Mal to go and settle in the #Hazarajat. This they did.
30. "According to Katib "400,000 #Hazara household" were driven out from their homes of whom only 10-20% found safety outside Afghanistan. The rest were either killed or enslaved. Some committed suicide, some were eaten by wolves, some froze to death b/c of cold weather.
31. "Scholars are increasingly seeing the Hazara Wars as an act of #genocide (though some surly historians are still reluctant). The best case presented so far of #Hazaragenocide is by Dr Ibrahimi.
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