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On the occasion of the 15th anniversary of our beloved leader
Shaheed Baba Abdul Ali Mazari, a remembrance ceremony was held
by the ‘Centre for Afghanistan Studies’ at Holiday Inn Hotel -
London. The Hazara men, women
and children from all walks of life attended the occasion to
commemorate the anniversary and pay their condolences to the
Shaheed Leader. Speeches were delivered by the various
representatives and delegates. Among the notables were the
Ambassador of Afghanistan, Iranian Councillor, The advisor to
the Afghan Government, the Chairman of Hazara International
Forum of Great Britain Haji Marzooq Ali and others.
The Secretary General of Hazara International
Forum Leila Asghar represented HIF and British Hazara Community
of Quetta among the speakers and delivered a heart warming
speech to the enchantment and roaring applaud of the audience.
After the talks and tributes the Fatiha and prayers were offered
to the soul of the martyred and dinner was served.
(Official Speech on the occasion of Mazari Day : From Mr.
Basharat Ali – Coordinator HIF)
Baba Abdul Ali Mazari
15th Anniversary Speech
I would like to
offer my thanks and gratitude to the organizers of this
gathering on behalf of the Hazara International Forum and Hazara
community. It’s a great honour and very much appreciated.
We are meeting here
today to commemorate and pay our condolences to the honourable
martyred leader Ustad Abdul Ali Mazari. Baba Mazari, is
indisputably regarded by the Hazara international community as
the greatest and most influential Hazara of recent times. I
believe all the Hazara dignitaries, intellectuals and scholars
agree that he was the one with a vision and ideology that could
salvage the diminishing fate of a nation in deep troubles.
Abdul Ali Mazari’s
far reaching vision and affectionate heart felt not only the
miseries and sufferings of Hazaras but all other ethnic groups
living in Afghanistan. He believed in a peaceful co-existence
and regarded the Hazaras, Pashtoons, Tajiks, Uzbaks and Balochs
as brother nations. He wanted to achieve survival in mutual
harmony for the future generations of the Afghans, free of
in-fighting and violence that has marred the history of
Afghanistan for the last couple of centuries. He felt for the
mothers who lost their sons, wives who lost their husbands,
children who witnessed the brutal killing of their fathers and
the families whose sole providers vanished in this fire.
There are only two
ways to freedom/autonomy: evolution and revolution and Mazari
fought for both. In his speeches he repeated that his aim was to
remove the discrimination against the Hazaras because of biased
policies of the central government and he would strive to create
a situation in
Afghanistan where
Hazaras will be given access to justice and equality by the
centre.
He demanded
respect, parity and civil rights for his people in a free and
prosperous Afghanistan.
Baba Mazari didn’t believe in division and discrimination on the
basis of ethnicity as he surmised if they were to wake up some
morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and
colour, they would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.
He thought somehow this madness must cease.
We must evolve for
all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression
and retaliation. He didn’t care if he fell far as someone else
picked up his flag and raised his cry. He only regretted that he
had but only one life to lay down for his beloved people.
He was not the only
martyr of his family but also lost his father Khuda Dad Hazara
and brother Haji Muhammad Nabi in this struggle and resistance.
His only fault was that he demanded peace and commanded respect
in a land so desperately in need of such phenomenon. His daring
rallying calls to the people of Afghanistan shook the evil
forces of darkness, cruelty and destruction who considered him
as the imminent threat to their ambitions of slavery and
colonialism. The history stands witness to the fact that those
mercenaries who killed Mazari, wrote chapter after chapter of
massacre, blood shed and barbarianism ranging from butchery of
innocent in Mazar-e-Sharif to the invasion of Panjsher,
destruction of Buddhas of Baamian and annihilation of Twin
Towers in the US. Had he been alive today, I am sure; the
situation would have been very different. He lived to die for
his cause and died to live eternally in the hearts of us all.
Let’s unite behind
our visionary spiritual father Baba Mazari’s cause and work
together for the unity of Hazaras the world over. I am sure the
day will come when the sun will shine on a free and democratic
Afghanistan where all people will have equal privileges and
enjoy the same rights as members of the civilized world.
Long Live Mazari
Long Live Hazaras
Long Live
Afghanistan
Thank you
(Speech
Writer: Basharat Ali – Coordinator HIF)
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