Afghanistan: “The Taliban killed my brother to protect my family” – Asia – International

As he watched the country in which he grew up sink into chaos, Saba received the call he so feared.

His family informed him that the talibans they were trying to burn down a house and asked for their brother.

No previous experience could have prepared him for what would happen next.

Saba, who lives in London, left Afghanistan two decades ago to escape the Taliban regime.

But his family stayed there and began a new life after the Taliban were deposed in the war. Afghanistan.

Saba’s brother found a job that made him a Taliban target after the fall of Acceptance, The Afghan capital, at the hands of the extremist group.

“They thought he had money and a hidden weapon,” Saba says.

Ever since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, his family went to Kabul airport “every day” to try to flee the country. They have not succeeded.

He was killed “in front of my mother”

A few days ago, the Taliban went to their parents ’house at night, he says, and asked about his older brother, who had been hiding to protect his family.

“They burned down the house looking for it, but they searched it and couldn’t find it,” he recounts.

Then the Taliban grabbed another brother and killed him.

“In front of my mother and in front of the children they killed my little brother.”

“We’ll come back and kill a child”

Images seen by the BBC show a dead man covered in wounds.

“They killed him in a very bad way. You can’t kill anyone like that,” Saba laments.

“The Taliban said ‘if you don’t give us your brother, we will come back and kill one child every time until you tell us.'”

Hidden out of sight of Taliban soldiers, Saba’s nephew managed to capture with a camera what was happening.

“I have a photo they sent me,” Saba says.

“He told me, ‘Please, we need your help and that of the UK government to get us to emigrate.'”

Within hours of the murder, Saba’s sister-in-law gave birth to “a child who will now grow up fatherless.”

His brother’s young children were left fatherless and live in terror.

Since then, the whole family remains hidden. “I don’t even know where he is,” Saba confesses.

“I haven’t slept, I can’t sleep anymore. We need help.”

“One million Afghans must be in the same situation.”

Details have been omitted or changed to protect the identity of the Saba family.

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