Thousands of protesters marched coffins containing the decapitated bodies of seven Shia Muslims from Hazara ethnic minority through the Afghan capital Kabul

Thousands of protesters marched coffins containing the decapitated bodies of seven Shia Muslims from Hazara ethnic minority through the Afghan capital Kabul Wednesday to demand justice for the gruesome beheadings.

On Wednesday, the protesters converged in the rain in Kabul’s western Mazari Square to express their resentment over the horrendous killings and the government’s failure to ensure security in the country, chanting death slogans to the Taliban and the ISIL terrorist group while demanding justice and protection from the government.

The marchers carried pictures of the victims, including two women and one child -- a girl, whose coffin was carried by grieving women. The protesters walked to the presidential palace.

“The only way to prevent such crimes in the future is to take over all government offices until they wake up and make a decision,” 40-year-old demonstrator Sayed Karim said.

“We want justice and we want this government, Ghani and Abdullah, to go so that we can have a government that protects all the people of the country and brings security to the whole country,” civil society activist Zahra Sepehr, one of the protest organizers, said.

She added the deaths of the seven Afghans were proof that there is no security across Afghanistan.

The protest came as the United Nations condemned the killings, suggesting they may have been a war crime.

"These senseless murders may amount to war crimes and the perpetrators must be held accountable," Nicholas Haysom, the U.N.'s Special Representative for Afghanistan, said in a statement Wednesday.