Aref Rahmani: Denying history is complicity in a crime again

Elaha Fri Sep 2025 2 months ago 152

He described the recent statements by Hafiz Mansoor, a leader of the National Resistance Front, as an example of "historical denial." Mansoor had previously suggested that the narrative of the Afshar tragedy and even the massacre of Hazaras during Abdur Rahman Khan’s era might be fabrications by forgers.


Rahmani labeled this stance as "secondary violence against victims" and added that denying atrocities obstructs justice, accountability, and the rebuilding of social trust. He warned that the policy of historical distortion not only fails to heal past wounds but also perpetuates the cycle of violence and discrimination in the future.


This former parliamentarian considered transitional justice as the only way out of the current situation and outlined its four pillars, including truth-finding and documentation, holding perpetrators accountable, compensating victims, and institutional reforms to prevent the recurrence of such tragedies.


Rahmani concluded: "From Abdur Rahman to Afshar, Afghanistan’s history bears witness to a recurring cycle of violence, discrimination, and denial; only by accepting the truth and holding perpetrators accountable can a future free from repeated tragedies be built. Denying atrocities is tantamount to complicity in them."

Aref Rahmani, a former member of the Parliament, has warned in a recent note that distorting history and denying past atrocities harms the collective memory of the people and paves the way for continuation of violence in the futureReferring to the genocide of Hazaras during reign of Abdur Rahman Khan (1891–189) and the Afshar tragedy in 1992, Rahmani stated that these two events, despite temporal and political differences share significant similarities, such as their organized nature,-driven motives, targeting of civilians He emphasized that these events in the collective memory of Hazaras as symbol of the "structural continuity of violence."

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