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Afghanistan
Taliban Hold Minority Hazaras Hostage for 'Stealing Sheep'
2015-11-23
[AnNahar] Afghan Talibs on Saturday kidnapped at least seven members of the minority Shiite Hazara community after a dispute over sheep, local authorities said.

Gunmen stopped three buses at dawn between Shah Joy and Qalat in the volatile Zabul province, first taking 17 hostages before releasing nine, local leader Wazir Mohammed Jawadi said.

Jawadi said the gunnies kept eight hostages, all from the Hazara ethnic group, Shiites who are known for their striking Central Asian features.

The local chief of police Mirwais Noorzai said that "seven Hazaras are being held hostage".

He said local Taliban leader Mullah Taqwa had ordered the kidnappings because Hazaras allegedly "stole sheep", adding that Taqwa would release the hostages "if the Hazaras give him back his sheep".
The "stealing" was no doubt that the Hazeras, being the legal owners of the sheep, thought they could keep them when the mullah's men demanded them, not understanding that they only held the sheep in trust for the Lions of Islam, the true owners as written in Koran and Hadiths.
A Taliban front man, Qari Yusef Ahmadi, told AFP that the group would "investigate" the incident.

Parts of Zabul province are under the control of the mainly Sunni Taliban and the area has been the scene of festivities between rival Taliban factions.

The three million-strong Afghan Hazara community has been persecuted for decades, with thousands killed in the late 1990s by Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

In February, 31 people, mostly Hazara, were kidnapped in the region by fighters linked to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 group, which has been trying to gain a foothold in Afghanistan.

A week ago thousands of people attended the burials of seven Hazaras after their decapitated bodies were found in Zabul. The victims were kidnapped in neighboring Jaghuri by unknown gunnies in October.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  Afghan Talibs on Saturday kidnapped at least seven members of the minority Shiite Hazara community after a dispute over sheep, local authorities said.

"Th Hazaras totally disrupted our arranged marriages"
Posted by: Frank G   2015-11-23 09:31  

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