Taliban Murder Teenage Boy for Teaching English
Charles Johnson
Fri Nov 16, 2007 at 9:19 am PST • Views: 352
Dark Ages savagery directed against children in Afghanistan: Boy killed for teaching English.
Kabul - Taliban militants have shot dead a teenage boy for teaching English in eastern Afghanistan, while several Taliban were killed and seven detained in a clash with coalition forces, officials said on Thursday.
Armed militants entered a school in Sayed Karam district of Paktika province and dragged the schoolboy out of his class and shot him dead, Esmatuallh Alizai, provincial police chief said.
“The boy, who was teaching English to other students after school hours, had been warned by the militants to stop teaching,” Alizai said.
Police in the area arrived at the scene and two policemen and two militants were killed in the ensuing gun battle, he said. Taliban militants have killed several teachers and students in the past for attending the government-run schools, which they regard as un-Islamic.
(Hat tip: Fat Tone.)
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