Afghan teacher killed for teaching girls
Friday, December 16, 2005 Posted: 1349 GMT (2149 HKT)
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) -- Suspected
Taliban guerrillas dragged a teacher from a classroom of teenagers in
southern Afghanistan and killed him at the school gate after he ignored
their orders to stop teaching girls, police said on Friday.
The attack was carried out by two armed men who arrived at the
secondary school in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province by motorcycle
on Thursday, Helmand police chief Abdul Rahman Sabir told Reuters.
"They dragged the teacher from the classroom and shot him at the school
gate," he said.
"He had received many warning letters from the Taliban to stop
teaching, but he continued to to do so happily and honestly -- he liked to
teach boys and girls," Sabir said.
He identified the teacher by the single name, Laghmani.
The fundamentalist Taliban banned education of girls during their rule
before being overthrown by U.S.-led forces in 2001.
The guerrillas have carried out a series of attacks in the provinces on
schools teaching girls since then, often burning them down at
night. |