Taliban Hung 8 Year Old Boy to Get Back At Father
The world is increasingly brutal, yet when you read something such as this you realize that despite being in the 21st century there are some who have absolutely no compassion — and that we should not forget who we and others are fighting against.
Suspected members of the Taliban on Friday hung the 8-year-old son
of a local police commander in southern Afghanistan after ordering his father to surrender, according to a news report on Saturday.
The Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) news agency reported that the young boy was kidnapped by militants in the Greshk district of Helmand province on Tuesday. They had ordered his father to surrender to the Taliban or else the boy would be executed.
“The militants had warned his father, who is a local police commander, to surrender with his police vehicle and weapons, otherwise they would kill his son,” provincial governor spokesman Daud Ahmadi told DPA. The boy was hung on Friday.
While child executions by the Taliban are not common, children often fall victim to Taliban militants when they carry out attacks. But children have also been used by the Taliban as suicide bombers.
Shall we run that again?
While child executions by the Taliban are not common, children often fall victim to Taliban militants when they carry out attacks. But children have also been used by the Taliban as suicide bombers.
In this case, just think about the anguish of the father. And think of the awful final days of that child.
The real monsters are not in horror movies.
5 Responses to “Taliban Hung 8 Year Old Boy to Get Back At Father”
War kills children indirectly. That’s why I don’t like seeing artillery or aerial bombardment in populated areas. There is rare, if any, plausible excuse for killing the innocent directly during war. This should bode ill for the Taliban among Muslims. Unfortunately dead is dead, directly or indirectly, and, it probably will be off-set by the many more children killed indirectly by the coalition in the minds of the Afghans.
As for children used as suicide bombers, no excuse for that at all. I have no idea how that is justified.
These people are stone age barbarians.
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Since the left is uniform in the call for unconditional and immediate pull out from Afghanistan, the question becomes who cares? Since American does not want to care about Afghanistan, then we cannot care what happens to people in Afghanistan.
Maybe if Afghanistan becomes as bad as Somalia, the western media will be too afraid to be in the country and thus, will we never hear about any more atrocities.
Agree with dduck. Evil is real and this is a picture of it.