Relative of DW journalist killed by the Taliban

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: DW (Deutsche Welle)

Taliban fighters hunting a DW journalist have shot dead one member of his family and seriously injured another. The Taliban were conducting a house-to-house search to try and find the journalist, who now works in Germany.

Other relatives were able to escape at the last moment and are now on the run. DW Director General Peter Limbourg issued a strong condemnation and called on the German government to take action.

The Taliban have raided the homes of at least three DW journalists. Nematullah Hemat of the private television station Ghargasht TV is believed to have been kidnapped by the Taliban, and Toofan Omar, the head of the private radio station Paktia Ghag Radio, was, according to government officials, targeted and shot dead by Taliban fighters.

Two men, also presumably Taliban, shot and killed the translator Amdadullah Hamdard, a frequent contributor to Germany's Die Zeit newspaper, on August 2 in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, right there on the street. And a month ago, the world-renowned Indian photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Danish Siddiqui died in Kandahar, presumably killed by Taliban militants.



Read more: https://www.dw.com/en/relative-of-dw-journalist-killed-by-the-taliban/a-58912975

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Taliban hunting down Afghans on blacklist — report

The RHIPTO Norwegian Center for Global Analyses report said the Taliban is "intensifying the hunt-down of all individuals and collaborators with the former regime."
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According to the report, people in central positions in the Afghan military, police and investigative units were particularly at risk.
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The report included a four-page letter written to one person alleged to have worked for the now ousted Afghan government. He was taken from his Kabul apartment this week and detained for questioning over his role as a counter-terrorism official in the previous government.

A letter telling the addressee to report to the commission threatened the arrest of family members who would be treated "according to Sharia law."

https://www.dw.com/en/taliban-hunting-down-afghans-on-blacklist-report/a-58914571

They haven't changed.

[cstanleytech]

1. "They haven't changed." Nope but then its hardly surprising given how they were given alot of

support in the region and a safe haven in Pakistan from which to base their operations for the last 20 years.

[gab13by13]

2. Yeah, I know the Taliban

are brutal killers but GQP politicians, right wing media, right wing pastors kill more people every day than the Taliban kill, it's just not as brutal but dead is still dead.