Wow. I just don't know what to make of this. I have always been one who believed that there were evil people in the world, but when you read something like this, it just brings it home.
Taliban militants have executed a seven-year-old boy they accused of being a spy, it emerged today.
The child was abducted from his home and taken to a neighbouring village where he was put on trial.
His captors found him guilty of working for the government.
The child was then hanged in public in the village of Heratiyan, in the southern Sangin district of Helmand province.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/...
Here's the link to the whole article, which also talks about a suicide bombing at a wedding what also killed a bunch of kids. Warning, there's a picture of a wounded child if you are uncomfortable viewing such things.
But this story about the boy just haunts me. I can't imagine the sheer horror he must have felt; dragged out of his home and 'put on trial' by a bunch of thugs and then hung.
Were the militants so crazy that they thought that this boy actually was a spy? Were they just trying to take revenge on his family? Were they just trying to terrorize the population by brutally and publicly murdering a little boy?
I have mixed feelings about the war in Afghanistan and am not sure that the US is going about things in the best way, but when I read something like this, it just reminds me that we have to try.