Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2022 July 12

= July 12 =

Hazara independence
Has anyone ever advocated in favor of creating an independent Hazarajat in central Afghanistan? Maybe as a part of breaking Afghanistan up into several pieces. The Hazaras have suffered extremely heavily under Pashtun rule in the past; see here: 1888–1893 uprisings of Hazaras. 68.4.99.100 (talk) 02:39, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * According to this source p. 136, in the 1990s Abdul Rashid Dostum proposed a federal constitution whereby Afghanistan would be divided into 4 autonomous republics, one of the republic would have been 'Republic of Hazarajat Autonomous Region'. I can't find any other ref backing this claim up, tho. This ref says that "[i]n early 2000, a small group of activists called for the independence of Hazarajat as a new state, to be called the Islamic Republic of Hazaristan", but I'm not sure of the accuracy of the claim (could be something along the line of 'Dalitstan' hoax). --Soman (talk) 13:12, 12 July 2022 (UTC)

Emperor Naruhito's involvement with mourning of Shinzo Abe
In English-language reporting of the assassination of Shinzo Abe there is the expected cataloguing of tributes from world leaders and reaction from Japanese political figures, but I haven't seen anything about the emperor's reaction. Did the imperial household put out a statement? Did the emperor attend the funeral or some other part of the mourning and commemoration of Abe? In other constitutional monarchies I would expect the head of state to react in some public way to the murder of a former head of government. Is there some reason this would be inappropriate in Japan, or is it simply that I haven't come across whatever the emperor may have said or done in what I've read? Beorhtwulf (talk) 21:30, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * They sent flowers and a chamberlain to burn incense. DuncanHill (talk) 21:47, 12 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I suspect that these matters are strictly governed by protocol. Alansplodge (talk) 12:09, 13 July 2022 (UTC)