Families of students at Sayed al- Shuhada school held a candlelight vigil in memory of students who lost their lives in a terrorist attack in this school last year.
The terrorist attack occurred on the 8th of May last year targeting the Hazera community at Sayed al- Shuhada school which killed 85 female students and wounded 130 others.
The Victims’ families and a number of young people gathered in front of the Sayed al – Shuhada school to hold the first memorial anniversary of the 85 victims by lighting candles.
The candlelight vigil was held at the same place where the students were killed.
the victim’s families read a statement stating” on this very same day last year, we all lost loved ones, some lost a sister and some a daughter. what can say now? And whom can we ask? Mother’s eyes went blind, and father’s back bent”.
“A year has passed since that tragic day, but the perpetrators of this unforgivable crime have not yet been punished. No one knows who they were and why they carried out such a horrific act against innocent students” said the victim’s families.
They also said that the bloody attack should not be forgotten.
“Does anyone know what the victim’s families have gone through this year? Has anyone come and asked those who have lost their body parts and been paralyzed?” they said
Families of the victims read a five-article statement in which they demanded that the victims’ names should be mentioned in the school curriculum as a way to commemorate them.
“with our wounds that are still bleeding, we gathered here to cry out to stop the Hazara genocide,” they said.
Meanwhile, Mr. Bennett, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan said that he has conducted independent investigations into the attack, and hopes that the criminals would be arrested and brought to justice once the reports are published.
Mr. Bennettt also tweeted that the inability to protect Hazara and Shia communities, who have been the targets of killings for years, had resulted in horrific consequence
Earlier, Reina Amiri, the US special representative for Afghan women, tweeted that the Taliban should be put under collective pressure to protect the Hazara community.
although perpetrators of the attack on the students of Sayed al-Shuhada school have not been identified yet. However, the previous government had blamed the Taliban.
