Hazara Genocide Archive
Rahila Manji
Detailed information
Full Name: Rahila Manji
Father's Name: Asadullah Rafi
Gender: Female
Age: 18
Marital Status: Single
Ethnicity: Hazara
Occupation: Student
Was living in: Golai Mahtab Qala, Barchi, Kabul
Killed on: August 15, 2018
Killed in: Suicide attack
Perpetrators: ISIS
Buried in: Danayee hill southwest Kabul
Country: Afghanistan
Contact facilities (phone, e-mail, residence):
Interview:
Consent letter:
Rahila Manji, victim of
Mauwood Educational Academy
ISIS suicides attacked the Mauwood Educational Academy located in Barchi, western of Kabul, and killed 43 students who were preparing for the entrance exam.
انتحاری های داعش به اکادمی آموزشی موعود واقع در دشتِ برچی در غرب کابل حمله کردند و ۴۳ دانش آموز که برای امتحان کانکور آماده می گرفتند را، کشتند.
Briefly about Rahila Rafi's life:
Seventeen-year-old Rahila Rafi was killed last August in a suicide attack on a Kabul classroom. Her brother has opened a library in honor of his slain sister after being inspired by an entry in Rahila's diary.
Who was Rahila?
Rahila was born in 2000 to a peasant father and housewife mother in Jaghori, Ghazni. She had learned to read and write from her mother before she enrolled in grade three in 2009. With her unique passion for education and educating others, she started courses of Holy Quran and school subjects for poor students at her home since grade six in the hope that all girls in her society become literate and educated to take part in the development and growth of her country.
Blessed with extraordinary public speaking skills, she was an avid and sociable girl who was engaged in social and cultural programs at a young age. She took her Diploma of English language in 2016 and began teaching in one of the English language centers in West of Kabul. Rahila was at grade 12 at school and had planned to sit the university entrance exam of Kankor in 2019 to study Economics at Kabul University.
In her own childish words, she has written about her dreams and future goals in her diary. One page reads: “I can be the Rahil that her society needs her desperately in its pursuit for prosperity and progress. This society will overcome its current crisis by solutions drawn from the knowledge and education of its youth, the like of Rahil…” Rahil and her classmates were not allowed to fulfill their potentials, to come up with solutions to the current mess.
Seventeen-year-old Rahila Rafi was killed last August in a suicide attack on a Kabul classroom. Her brother has opened a library in honor of his slain sister after being inspired by an entry in Rahila's diary.
Who was Rahila?
Rahila was born in 2000 to a peasant father and housewife mother in Jaghori, Ghazni. She had learned to read and write from her mother before she enrolled in grade three in 2009. With her unique passion for education and educating others, she started courses of Holy Quran and school subjects for poor students at her home since grade six in the hope that all girls in her society become literate and educated to take part in the development and growth of her country.
Blessed with extraordinary public speaking skills, she was an avid and sociable girl who was engaged in social and cultural programs at a young age. She took her Diploma of English language in 2016 and began teaching in one of the English language centers in West of Kabul. Rahila was at grade 12 at school and had planned to sit the university entrance exam of Kankor in 2019 to study Economics at Kabul University.
In her own childish words, she has written about her dreams and future goals in her diary. One page reads: “I can be the Rahil that her society needs her desperately in its pursuit for prosperity and progress. This society will overcome its current crisis by solutions drawn from the knowledge and education of its youth, the like of Rahil…” Rahil and her classmates were not allowed to fulfill their potentials, to come up with solutions to the current mess.
