Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentTaliban fighters looking to exact revenge against journalists affiliated with Western media on Thursday shot dead the relative of an Afghan journalist for German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) who had left the country.
They also injured another at his home in Western Afghanistan.DW Director General Peter Limbourg has confirmed the vendetta and called on the German government to step up efforts to bring journalists working with Western media to safety.“The killing of a close relative of one of our editors by the Taliban yesterday is inconceivably tragic, and testifies to the acute danger in which all our employees and their families in Afghanistan find themselves,” Limbourg said in a.
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