Shukria Tabassum ( prs, شکریه تبسم) was a
Hazara
Hazara may refer to:
Ethnic groups
* The Hazaras, a Persian-speaking people of Afghanistan and Pakistan
* Aimaq Hazara, Aimaq's subtribe of Hazara origin
* Hazarawals, a Hindko-speaking people of the Hazara region of northern Pakistan
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victim killed in the
2015 Zabul massacre in
Zabul, Afghanistan.
The
Tabassum movement was named after her.
Childhood and murder
Shukria Tabassum belonged to the
Hazara ethnic group
The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzərə) are an ethnic group and the principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scatte ...
of Afghanistan, and was born in
Jaghori District
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of
Ghazni Province. She was the daughter of Ramazan Ali. She was a student who at the age of 9 was kidnapped by the
Islamic State (IS) in Afghanistan. During a journey from Jaghori to
Quetta, Pakistan all seven ethnic Hazara passengers were captured in the valley of
Zabul, Afghanistan.
Tabassum and six other passengers who were kidnapped were later executed. After they were killed, the kidnappers (known as IS members) dropped their bodies in a hospital in Zabul Valley. The other Hazaras received the news and reached to Zabul to collect their bodies.
Eponymous movement
After the execution of all seven kidnap victims, around 20,000 demonstrators gathered in
Kabul to protest against government policies and the administration, in a series of protests called the Tabassum movement, named in memory of Shukria Tabassum.
See also
*
List of kidnappings
The following is a list of kidnappings summarizing the events of each individual case, including instances of celebrity abductions, claimed hoaxes, suspected kidnappings, extradition abductions, and mass kidnappings.
Before 1900
1900–1949
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References
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Date of birth missing
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Formerly missing people
Hazara children
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Kidnapped children
Missing person cases in Afghanistan
Child murder in Afghanistan
People from Ghazni Province
People killed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant
People murdered in Afghanistan
Violence against women in Afghanistan
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