Posted on 06/10/2010 2:33:38 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Taleban hang 7-year-old boy to punish family
Jerome Starkey, Kandahar
A seven-year-old boy was executed by the Taleban in a brutal act of retribution this week, after his grandfather dared to resist the insurgency’s iron rule.
Afghan officials said the boy was accused of spying for US and Nato forces and hanged from a tree in southern Afghanistan.
Daoud Ahmadi, the spokesman for Helmand’s provincial governor, said the murder came just days after the boy’s grandfather, Abdul Woodod Alokozai, spoke out against militants in their hometown.
“I know his father and I know his grandfather,” Mr Ahmadi said. “His grandfather is a tribal elder in the village and the village is under the control of the Taleban. His grandfather said some good things about the government and he formed a small group of people to stand against the Taleban.
“That’s why the Taleban killed his grandson in revenge.”
The attack happened in Heratiyan village, in Sangin district, close to where insurgents shot down an American Pave Hawk helicopter yesterday, killing all four crew.
The helicopter was swooping low over the Taleban infested town to suppress attacks on a grounded air ambulance, which was busy loading British casualties on board.
The killing of children to punish their parents has chilling echoes of western mafia-style violence. Under Pashtunwali, the complex and ancient honour code of the Pashtuns, it is likely to spawn generations of vendettas and blood letting.
Asked about the attack at a press conference, President Hamid Karzai, said he didn’t know if the Taleban had been involved.
The Taleban denied any involvement. They also denied attacking a wedding party in Kandahar yesterday which left at least 40 people dead and more than 80 others seriously wounded.
Both incidents have drawn fierce condemnation from Afghan and international officials.
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Not that I condone this, but being sodomized by an dirty old man is worse than being hanged?
Maybe I missed something in the video
“The killing of children to punish their parents has chilling echoes of western mafia-style violence.”
I don’t remember hearing about any mafia killings of children in order to punish the parents. Sounds like something Sadam Hussein might have done, though.
I love the use of the words “chilling echoes” as if to imply this type of thing was done in the west FIRST. Oh, yeah, Muslims never killed children before the mafia came up with the idea!
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Actually, I couldn’t really see what was going on in that video. That’s probably a good thing.
The Nazis killed children if their parents took a stand against them, too. But this must be multi-culturalism at its best — the thing THEY choose to do that we don’t do. “How can we judge?” // sarc.
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