With a long history of persecution, the Hazaras fear the worst under Taliban rule.
![Relatives attend the funeral of the victims of a bomb blast during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan on October 16, 2021 [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/h_57235576.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Sitarah Mohammadi is a former Hazara refugee from Afghanistan, who spent 2019 as a Provost Scholar at the University of Oxford, undertaking studies in International Relations, and completed a dissertation on Australia’s refugee policy. She has a BA in International Relations and Human Rights, and is currently undertaking her Juris Doctor (Law) at Monash University Law School in Australia.
With a long history of persecution, the Hazaras fear the worst under Taliban rule.
![Relatives attend the funeral of the victims of a bomb blast during Friday prayers at a Shia mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan on October 16, 2021 [EPA]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/h_57235576.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
It is still not safe for Afghan refugees and asylum seekers to return home.
![A baby is pushed in a stroller as members of a migrant family from Afghanistan approach Croatia's border from Bosnian side in an attempt to cross into EU by foot, on January 6, 2021 in Bosnia and Herzegovina [Damir Sagolj/Getty Images]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/GettyImages-1230451455.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)