...a grouping of Dari-speaking people of Sino-Tibetan descent inhabiting Afghanistan and Pakistain. They are predominantly Shia Moslems and not particularly warlike, which makes them favored targets...people. The emir’s armies killed, raped, and enslaved thousands of Hazaras. As ’mule loads’ of severed heads made their way back to Kabul, much of the community fled to Pakistain and Iran.
Fast forward some years, and the men and women that once escaped an Afghan despot are now escaping Pakistain’s sectarian holy warriors. Where once they ran to neighbouring lands, the Hazaras now content themselves with the other end of the earth. Yet even this final flight is unsafe: scores have drowned on the way to Australia, their boats capsizing amid waves and whirlpools.