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Afghanistan: Taliban Attack Afghan Journalist for Interviewing Woman

There is no end to their violence Taliban by weight journalists, with one last victim Afghan reporter. In the video that has been circulating on the internet for the last few hours, the journalist accepts attack by the Taliban because interviewed a woman during a protest in Kandahar over the displacement of 3,000 families from their homes.

Radio station reporter Millat Zagh is seen in the video being attacked by a Taliban fighter as he videotaped an interview with a woman protesting as the Taliban ordered her to leave her home. The woman is one of hundreds of Afghans who have gathered to protest the evacuation order given to 3,000 families, despite the fact that some of them have been living there for decades.

According to a Daily Mail report, citing an anonymous witness, “the journalist was talking to a woman when a Taliban man went and started beating him.” The Afghan journalist had been licensed but that did not seem to be enough for the Taliban. The witness explains that the woman told the journalist that she had no money and that she and her children would have nowhere to go after the eviction.

The Taliban are also said to have been persuaded after the protest to reconsider the evictions, which are to be carried out in three days, telling families not to move until a final decision is made.

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