Young people across the globe need to better appreciate the value of peace, which they so often take for granted, foreign students who are studying Japanese said during a symposium in Tokyo earlier this week.
Ali Jane, a 21-year-old Afghan who fled his country and came to Japan in 2001, when Afghanistan was still under the rule of the Taliban, recalled his fear of being killed by the Taliban militia on his way to and from school.
His family are ethnic Hazaras, part of the Shiite minority, and were persecuted by the Taliban, who are Sunni Muslims.