Hazaras (Afghanistan)

Last modified: 2006-07-01 by ian macdonald
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by Santiago Dotor

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• Mujahideen and anti-Taliban groups 1980's-2001 (Afghanistan)
• Afghanistan

Two Hazara gentlemen that I spoke to today said (...) that the Hazara people flew a green monochrome flag.

Tony Laszlo, 14 November 2001

It is unclear, if other factions of the Northern Alliance (e.g. the Hazara) used their own flags.

Marcus Schmöger, 19 December 2001

In the 1980s I took notes from TV programmes in ZDF-heute, heute-Journal, ARD-tagesthema, ARD-tagesschau and SFB-Nachrichtensendungen. The following flags could be seen in reports about the war in Afghanistan between the Mujahideen and the Soviet Union (...) according to my information, the Hazara use a plain green flag (as Libya).

Jens Pattke, 19 December 2001

News magazine Der Spiegel, 4th February 2002, p. 136ff, had an article on the Bamian region in Afghanistan, where the Hazara live. The article mentions the local "governor" or better party leader of the Hazara, named Khalili. Over his house waves "the green flag of the prophet". So this seems to be the most important local Hazara flag, at least.

Marcus Schmöger, 19 December 2001