The Taliban have killed a relative of a Deutsche Welle journalist. They are purposefully searching houses in Afghanistan and looking for journalists. Radical Islamists have lists of names of people who need to be eliminated, he said “Deutsche Welle.”
A Deutsche Welle journalist is wanted by the Taliban to be killed. During his search in Afghanistan, radical Islamists killed a member of his family and seriously injured another of his relatives. The fighters searched house by house, apparently unaware that the wanted man was already in Germany. Other of his relatives managed to escape and hide at the last moment.
Deutsche Welle Director General Peter Limburg strongly condemned the attacks and called on the German government to act.
“The killing of a close relative of our editor is an unimaginably tragic event that shows the enormous danger our collaborators and their families are in in Afghanistan. Apparently, the Taliban are purposefully searching for journalists in Kabul and the province, and our time is running out.”
Wanted, abducted, killed
This is confirmed by the events of the last few days. The Taliban searched the homes of at least three Deutsche Welle journalists, and their colleagues from other media outlets were abducted or killed. Nematullah Hemat of private Ghargasht TV appears to have been abducted, and Paktia Ghag Radio head Tofan Omar has been killed, according to official figures.
Two armed men, believed to be Taliban fighters, shot dead Amdadullah Hamdard, a translator who worked for the German newspaper Die Zeit, in broad daylight on a street in the city of Jalalabad on August 2. And a month ago in Kandahar, the world-famous Indian photographer and Pulitzer Prize winner Danish Sidiki was killed – probably also by the Taliban.
In this regard, Deutsche Welle, along with other media and organizations, called in an open letter to the German government to launch an urgent visa program for Afghan officials. The Union of Journalists also demanded active action from the federal government. “Germany cannot watch indifferently as our colleagues are persecuted or killed,” said its president, Frank Uberal.
Earlier, a Taliban spokesman tried to reassure the international community, saying at a news conference that the Taliban was ready to forgive, as only in this way could peace and stability be achieved. “We will forgive anyone who has been against us,” the spokesman said.
Taliban blacklists
But the facts say otherwise: the Taliban have begun blacklisting people who held key positions under the previous government and cooperated with the US military and other NATO countries. This was announced by Reuters, citing an expert report prepared by the Norwegian Center for Global Analysis RHIPTO specifically for the UN.
“The Taliban are stepping up the search for all representatives and supporters of the fallen regime, and if they fail to capture them, their families become a target. They arrest and punish them according to their own interpretation of Sharia … They are at greatest risk. exposed people who have held key positions in the army, police and investigative units, “the statement said. Many of the people who are currently in the area of Kabul airport and are trying to leave the country in a panic are on the blacklists in question.
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