The German Public Broadcasting Corporation said that Taliban militants tried to track down journalists affiliated with the West. They allegedly shot and killed the family of an editor who worked for Deutsche Welle and seriously injured another editor.
The state-owned broadcaster said the Taliban had conducted house-to-house searches in the west. Afghanistan Trying to find journalists who have moved to Germany.
A spokesperson for Deutsche Welle said that other family members managed to escape at the last minute and are now fleeing.
The broadcaster’s director-general Peter Limburg called on the German government to take more measures to help Afghans working in the country with Western media.
Limburg said: “Yesterday the Taliban killed a close relative of one of our editors. This is incredible. It proves that all our employees and their families in Afghanistan are in extreme danger.”
“It is clear that the Taliban have conducted organized searches of journalists in Kabul and various provinces. We are running out of time.”
According to reports, retaliation against journalists who have links with Western news media has weakened the Taliban’s claim that it will not retaliate against people who are considered dissidents, and runs counter to the media friendly image that the military organization is trying to establish. Allow some of its representatives to be interviewed by female speakers Used for TV channels.
The Taliban raided the homes of at least three journalists affiliated with Deutsche Welle, a German international broadcasting company that offers 30 languages.
Other Afghan journalists were killed or kidnapped. On August 8, an unidentified gunman shot and killed Toofan Omar, the manager of the private broadcaster Paktia Ghag Radio.
According to Reuters, on the same day, Taliban militants kidnapped Nematullah Hemat, a reporter from the private news channel Gharghasht TV, at the home of Lashkar Gah in southern Helmand Province.
This month, it is presumed that the gunman of a Taliban member shot and killed the translator Amdadullah Hamdard (Amdadullah Hamdard), a frequent visitor of the German Time magazine Newspaper, in the eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan.
Writing anonymously in the Guardian, A female Afghan journalist described that she had publicly opposed the Taliban and angered the Taliban through her news reports. She fled her hometown and province.
British media organizations, including the Guardian, have repeatedly urged the government to withdraw Afghan journalists and translators working with the British media.
In Germany, the Federal Association of German newspaper publishers called on the government to establish an emergency visa program for Afghan employees.
German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Thursday that members of Afghan society “particularly worthy of protection”, such as journalists or human rights activists, do not need to apply for asylum to reach Germany, but will be equal to local workers. Treat German government agencies and obtain a three-year residence permit.
Germany, which ended its withdrawal at the end of June, was once the second largest army stationed in Afghanistan after the United States. It has deployed about 150,000 soldiers in the past 20 years.
