Thread on #MazarMassacre: 1- I lived in Mazar throughout all of these. I was a high school kid when Malik facilitated Taliban's first entry to Mzr. After 2-3 days they didn't get along, fighting started in the streets of Mzr. And so many Talibs were killed. Jubish, Jamiat, &

2- Hezb Wahdat had military power in Mzr at that time. I saw dead bodies on d streets d next day. When the Taliban invaded & took over Mzr d next year, they waged a targeted killing of Hazara residence of Mzr. 1000s were killed in 3 days. They came to our house 3 times, tortured

my father, younger brother, and I. We were kids, & our father a civil servant. & if it wasn't for my mother shielding us with her body & asking the Taliban to kill her first, we would be no more. We survived, but 1000s other Hazara civilians did not. I lived in Mzr the years of..

Taliban occupation. After 9/11, I was in undergrad in Mzr, & was CNN's fixer/interpreter when the Taliban came to Mzr from Kundoz to surrender. We followed them to Qalai Jangi in Mzr, & I was interviewing a Taliban member when one of them triggered an explosion during body search

the rest of the story in Qalai Jangi is well documented. @BRRubin framing of the Mazar massacre of Hazaras as a "revenge" by the Taliban & @AimalFaizi's tweet equating Hazara residence of Mzr with Hezb Wahdat & other parties are not based on facts & is misleading. As we

negotiations with the Taliban, it is time to face our painful past as it happened. Learn from it. Seek for justice as & when possible& open a new chapter, looking to the future. We cant build a stable future by manipulating the facts. It takes courage & integrity 2 face the past