Sunday, June 27, 2004
Martyrs for democracy
From Reuters:
May their deaths be not in vain.
KABUL -- Taliban guerrillas kidnapped and then killed 16 people in an Afghan province after finding them with voter registration cards for the country's September elections, a district official said Sunday.
The guerrillas stopped a bus carrying 17 civilians through the district Friday, said Haji Obaidullah, chief of Khas Uruzgan district in the central province of Uruzgan.
The guerrillas took the passengers to the neighboring province of Zabul and killed all but one of them when they found they were carrying voter cards, he quoted the lone survivor as saying.
``They were apparently killed because they were carrying the registration cards,'' he said.
May their deaths be not in vain.
