
by Zia Forogh
“Stop Hazara Genocide” was created as part of the global Stop Hazara Genocide campaign. It portrays a suffering that belongs not only to the past but continues to this day — a suffering inflicted daily upon the Hazara people. The skulls and bones on the canvas represent destroyed bodies — yet above all, they remind us of people whose lives and futures were stolen. The dark colors and suffocating textures symbolize the silence of the world — a world that sees, but does not hear. This work is a visual outcry so that people around the world may know: somewhere on this earth, innocent lives are still being lost to genocide — without their voices being heard. “Stop Hazara Genocide” is not merely a painting, but a manifesto against forgetting and a call to rise against injustice.