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TechnoratiTaliban execute Afghan working for French NGO
An Afghan working for a French NGO was executed in public by the Taliban on Saturday night after being kidnapped on 30 May. The man, who worked for the Madera rural aid group, was hanged and shot, according to police.
The Taliban left the body hanging from a tree in Pasaband district in Ghor province and told local people not to take it down for three days and three nights,
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according to Madera’s head of operations, Ramazan Mahdyar.
The Taliban staged the kidnap to try and win the release from prison of the wife of one of their local commanders. She had been jailed for providing accommodation for a suicide bomber.
“When the Taliban realised that the government wouldn’t set her free, they killed our colleague,” Mahdyar said.
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Ghor is home to a number of armed groups. They include Taliban groups which originated inside and outside the province, militias run by pro-government warlords and criminal gangs.
Madera is a rural aid NGO founded in 1988. It only works in Afghanistan, where it employs about 600 people, about a dozen of whom are expatriates.
Three foreign troops were killed in Afghanistan Sunday, including two who died when their helicopter crashed in the east, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force said.
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