The Taliban murdered 13 ethnic Hazara people including a teenage girl, according to a prominent rights group. Amnesty International said it found evidence the victims were massacred in Daykundi province in August. Nine were former government soldiers who had surrendered to the Taliban, Amnesty said, adding that the killings appeared to be a war crime. The Taliban denied the allegation, telling the BBC that the Amnesty report only showed "one side" of the story. The Hazara community is Afghanistan's third largest ethnic group. They mainly practise Shia Islam and have faced long-term discrimination and persecution in predominantly Sunni Afghanistan and Pakistan. This is the second time the Taliban have been accused of killing Hazaras since the group swept to power in August. Two other victims of the alleged killings in Daykundi province were civilians, Amnesty said, including a year-old girl reportedly shot when the Taliban opened fire on a crowd of soldiers' families.
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The Kite Runner is a American drama film directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by David Benioff and based on the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini. It tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet military intervention , the mass exodus of Afghan refugees to Pakistan and the United States, and the Taliban regime. Though most of the film is set in Afghanistan , these parts were mostly shot in Kashgar , Xinjiang , China , due to the dangers of filming in Afghanistan at the time. The child actors are native speakers , but several adult actors had to learn Dari. Filming wrapped up on December 21, , and the film was expected to be released on November 2, However, after concern for the safety of the young actors in the film due to fears of violent reprisals to the sexual nature of some scenes in which they appear, its release date was pushed back six weeks to December 14, The film opens with an Afghan-American writer, Amir Qadiri, and his wife, Soraya, who are watching children flying kites at a bayside park.
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