more jihad

Guardian Unlimited

Suspected Taliban gunmen shot dead a leading women’s rights campaigner in Kandahar yesterday in the latest assassination of a government official in the restive southern provinces.

Women’s Affairs director, Safia Ama Jan, was killed on the city outskirts as she left for work yesterday morning. The assailants shot her four times in the head, through a burka, before fleeing.

Ms Ama Jan, 56, has been an advocate for women’s rights in Kandahar, the former Taliban headquarters, since the fundamentalists were ousted five years ago. Her murder appeared to mark a return to a strategy of intimidation and assassination after the defeat of Taliban fighters at the hands of a Nato force in western Kandahar this month.

Relatives described Ms Ama Jan as religious and a champion of women’s education for more than three decades. She stayed in Afghanistan under the Taliban to give secret classes to local girls at home.

Educating the women of Afghanistan is forbidden; the slaves must be kept in their place.

Posted on September 26th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: slavery

One Response to “more jihad”

  1. Paco Malo, on September 30th, 2006 at 4:14 pm Said:

    Though I have no evidence of a causal link, it only takes being the brother-in-law of Saddam Hussein’s judge in Iraq to get yourself assasinated.

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