The “driver/translator” was actually an Afghani Journalist Student who studied in Germany. He wrote that article 7 days ago before he was killed. Sultan M. Munadi sounded like a decent human being who loved his country.
“Those times are past now. Now I am hopeful of a better situation. And if I leave this country, if other people like me leave this country, who will come to Afghanistan? Will it be the Taliban who come to govern this country? That is why I want to come back, even if it means cleaning the streets of Kabul.”
>>”Sultan M. Munadi sounded like a decent human being who loved his country.”
HIS life may well have been worth the risk. But his death was inevitable, if premature. As someone who could read and write, AND anti- Taliban, he would have been marked for death as soon as we leave — just as the Khmer Rouge did in Cambodia. Starting with anyone who wore glasses, i.e. an obvious intellectual.
DG