The Hazara Council of Great Britain organized a protest at the foot of the King George V monument opposite the Houses of Parliament in London against the bombing of a vegetable market on February 16 in Quetta, Pakistan, that killed at least 91 of their brethren and wounded 190 more. In the last century, millions of Hazaras have become refugees or migrant workers for reasons of poverty compounded by brutal repression. The most extreme repression was the campaign waged against them in the 1890s by the emir of Kabul, Abdul Rahman, in which two thirds of the Hazara population was massacred or displaced, thousands were enslaved, and towers were made of the heads of defeated fighters. As a result, Hazara grief and anger have reached a crescendo. In Quetta, they have taken matters into their own hands and a Hazara scout group has taken up arms to police the community's neighborhoods.
