2021 Machh attack
On 3 January 2021, a group of Islamic State (IS) militants killed 11 Hazara coal miners after being kidnapped in Machh, Balochistan, Pakistan. The attack The miners were on their way to work when the gunmen ambushed and dragged them into the nearby mountains. All 11 miners were blindfolded and had their hands tied behind their backs before having their throats slit. Video of the miners' murders shows the dead men strewn out on the floor of a village hut. The victims were members of the minority Shia community. Protests Not long after the attack, Hazaras blocked roads and burned tires in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province. They gathered to protest the terror attacks on them and to demonstrate their minority rights. They demanded that the Prime Minister visit them and personally assure them that justice would be served in the case of the lynched miners. A demonstration organized by the Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen in Karachi continued for three days at over twenty locations in the city. Balochistan's Shia Hazara community continued a sit-in protest with the dead bodies for six straight days on Quetta’s Western Bypass, refusing to bury the murdered miners. Government action and burial The government ordered