Joshua Boyle condemns ‘stupidity’ of kidnappers and says he hopes to build sanctuary for family after five-year ordeal A Canadian man who was held hostage with his family for five years has said that the Taliban-linked militants who abducted him and his wife in Afghanistan raped her and killed an infant daughter born in captivity.
Giving new details of the family’s ordeal after arriving at Toronto airport following a rescue operation mounted on Wednesday by the Pakistani military,Joshua Boyle said they had been kidnapped while trying to deliver aid to villagers in a piece of a Taliban-controlled region that “no NGO, no aid worker and no government” had been able to reach. Related: Parents of freed US hostage furious with son-in-law for Afghanistan trip Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com