The members of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a movement composed of Pashtuns from Pakistan and Afghanistan, called for protests all over the West against the Islamic Republic of Iran. The call was launched after the Iranian regime fired on 300 Afghan migrants trying to enter Iranian territory, killing and injuring dozens. PTM has criticized human rights violations by Pakistan and the recent incident in which the Iranian government killed Afghan migrants.
(Source: Tik Tok)
On October 16, 2024, the Afghan media outlet Tolo stated that Afghan migrants trying to enter Iran illegally encountered an ambush incident that occurred in the Kalkan, Saravan area, and it is said that they were attacked with both light and heavy weapons.[1] After this news, PTM members went to demonstrate against the Islamic republic of Iran in the United States and in the United Kingdom.
During a PTM demonstration in London, Mohammad Yousuf Hotak, PTM member, gave the following speech in Dari: "We understand that your [Iranian] fascist government, your oppressive and tyrannical government, martyr our Afghans every day, executes them, tortures them; but we also ask the great nation of Iran, we [Afghans and Iranians] have a shared language, we have a shared culture, why did not one Iranian raise their voice for the innocent Afghan migrants who were martyred – 300 of our innocent migrants were martyred.
"Iranians living in Iran or in other countries, who even have freedom, did not raise their voices for the human rights of Afghans that have been trampled. What kind of shared culture do we have? How do we have a shared language? Is this what it means to be of the same culture and language? Death to the Islamic Republic of Iran, death! Death to the fascist regime of Iran, death! Death to the Iranian border officers, death! Death to those who have killed innocent Afghans, death! Death to the regime of Iran, death, death to the regime of Iran, death, death, death."[2]
