That's
your sanitized version of your history. Let me point out the Pashtun version.
1.
The word Hazara comes from the Persian word “Hazar” which means a thousand.
Ghengis sent an army under his grandson, Mutugen,
to lay India to waste. When I say
lay to waste consider what this means. The Mongols at one point seriously considered the
Holocaust of the entire people of China so they would have more grasslands for their horses. That's what Ghengis intended to do to the ancestors of the Jatts and the Hindus. At the very least we know he wiped out 25% of the population of Asia and Europe.
Anyway, the Mongol army decided that invading the lands of the Pashtuns (Afghanistan) would be a cakewalk and the Mongols arrogantly demanded the Pashtuns of one city surrender and provide them with provisions so they could go on towards India.
The Pashtuns refused. In the city of Bamiyan, the Pashtuns bravely prepared to defend their homes from a Mongol army sent to conquer the whole of India.
Such was their courage that the Pashtuns of Bamiyan defeated this massive army, and killed Mutugen.
Ghengis responded by diverting an army he was sending
to lay Europe to waste and utterly destroyed the city of Bamiyan. Most of the Afghan population of that city were buried alive by the Mongols.
But because the Pashtuns refused to surrender and continued to fight using guerrilla tactics, he set up units of
Hazar soldiers each to hunt down and engage in a Holocaust of the Afghans. According to contemporary chroniclers, 80% of the Pashtun population was wiped out with the rest retreating to mountains and deserts. Consider that according to historians Hitler wiped out 30 - 50% of the Jewish population of the world.
In the city of Herat and its surroundings alone we know that your ancestors killed according to historians 1.6 MILLION people. We know from DNA tests that the virtually the ENTIRE population of Iraq was wiped out by your ancestors.
Do you think many Jews even hundreds of years from now would look kindly upon Germans who wanted to celebrate the achievements of their Nazi ancestors? You claim that the Afghans 'persecuted' the Mongols in the 1700's by asking them to pay taxes. That's called civilization--novel idea I know, right?! On the other hand the persecution of the Afghans at the hands of the Hazaras began 500 years earlier.
2.
Most Hazaras came to Afghanistan with Ghengeis Khan during his Khwarezmian campaign.
You make it sound as if one of the greatest holocausts in human civilization was a package holiday. Your ancestors invaded the Pashtun homeland of Afghanistan. They were not invited. They were not welcome. And it wasn't theirs.
Your ancestral homeland is Mongolia not Afghanistan.
3. ( It was not originally the intention of the Mongol Empire to invade the Khwarezmid Empire. According to the Persian historian Juzjani, Genghis Khan had originally sent the ruler of the Khwarezmid Empire, Ala ad-Din Muhammad, a message seeking trade and greeted him as his neighbor: "I am master of the lands of the rising sun while you rule those of the setting sun. Let us conclude a firm treaty of friendship and peace”. Which the “Sultan” broke after he beheaded an innocent Mongol caravan.)
This is false on a number of accounts.
The Khwarizm Shah had excellent reasons for treating the Mongols as hostiles. In his wars with the Suri empire (called 'Ghorid' despite the fact its rulers were Suris), the Khwarizm Shah at one desperate moment had been sent an army by the Qara Khitai. This placed him in a position where he was allied to the Qara Khitai. Kuchlug the leader of the Qara Khitai was regarded as a mortal enemy by Ghengis. This meant it was impossible for the Khwarizm Shah to treat the Mongols as friends without engaging in treachery towards his allies the Qara Khitai.
The Khwarizm Shah had made it clear that Mongols were not permitted in his lands. His governer, Inaljuq of Otrar subsequently discovered that a group of Mongols had entered the kingdom claiming to be merchants, but carrying so much wealth that he believed they were sent to try and recruit spies in the Empire for future missions. He had them executed.
Since the Khwarizm Shah had already made it clear that he was not interested in breaking his links with the Qara Khitai, Ghengis decided to try and sow discord between the Khwarizmian Empire and the Qara Khitai by sending Mongol envoys and pretending that the Khwarezmians were about to abandon the Qara Khitai. This is actually a tactic straight from the Chinese 'Romance of three kingdoms'. It is because of this attempt that the Khwarezmian Shah had the 'envoys' executed, to demonstrate to the Qara Khitai that he was not going to break his treaty with them.
The Khwarizmian Empire fell, millions of people died, and the lights of Baghdad went out, not because because the Shah was 'nasty to the poor honest Mongol envoys'; it fell because the Sunni Caliph was too trusting of his treacherous Shiite minister Ibn Al-Qami.
"The Mongol invasion began like the American invasion: with a disgruntled Shi'ite upstart aspiring to greatness. The Ahmad Chalabi of the 13th century was a character called Ibn al-'Alqami. Al-'Alqami was a minister in the court of the Caliph al-Musta'sim. Like Chalabi, al-'Alqami had desires of leadership of the land and, like Chalabi, he was not above soliciting the assistance of foreign powers to help – even if that assistance would come at great cost to his people or his nation. America was not a superpower in al-Alqami's time so he turned his attentions to the Mongols.
Al-'Alqami wrote a number of letters to the leader of the Mongols, Hulagu Khan, inviting him to invade the land, promising' his support and offering "intelligence" on the Caliph's armies, their strengths and weaknesses, and the overall lay of the land. It would, he assured the Mongols, be a cakewalk and within a short space of time the Mongol Empire could be extended into the previously impervious core of the Muslim Caliphate. At the same time, Al-'Alqami used his position to influence the Caliph to reduce the size of the army thus ensuring that the Mongol invasion would be guaranteed little resistance."
The Mongol Invasion of Iraq: Lessons Never Learned - by Amir Butler
