URUZGAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Insurgents killed the last remaining son of an Afghan Uniformed Policeman after a failed extortion plot against the victim's father near the village of Kalah-Kalah, May 18.
Residents, along with the young man's father, presented the body to provincial, district and coalition special operation forces at the conclusion of a shura in the Chora district the same day. The young man's father is a veteran Afghan Uniformed Policeman and has had two other sons killed by insurgents.
"The teenager was abducted by insurgents May 15 and held hostage in an attempt to gain weapons from the AUP," said a coalition SOF representative. "After the check-point commander did not produce the weapons, the boy was killed and his body discarded."
Local elders accompanied the grieving father to the shura and asked the Provincial Chief of Police, Mataiullah Khan, District Chief of Police Niamattulah Khan and District Governor Khalifa Sadat, for help, said the coalition SOF representative."They all listened to the boy's father and the PCoP advised him to begin the funeral process."
The PCoP also promised to work with the district chief of police and
local government to ensure that those guilty are brought to justice.