Last week, I did my current event regarding a German engineer who had been kidnapped along with a number of South Korean Christian aid workers on July 19. This week, I have decided to do my current event as sort of a follow up from last week. The article is about the remaining South Korean hostages who were released by the Taliban on Thursday. However, the article says nothing about the German engineer, Blechschmidt, being released. These South Korean hostages were handed over to Red Cross officials, according to Afghan and Taliban officials. Before handing over the rest of the hostages, they released a total of 12 South Korean hostages on Wednesday. The Taliban freed 10 women and two men in three separate groups, but only after South Korea's team of negotiators in Afghanistan said they had come to some sort of agreement with them. However, not all of the hostages were sent free. Sadly, the Taliban executed two of the South Korean hostages. The agreement made between South Korea and the Taliban included taking its 200 non-combat troops out of Afghanistan, which were mostly engineers and medical officials, and to halt all Christian missionary work in Afghanistan. According to a South Korean spokesman there was no agreement to pay the kidnappers or release any Taliban prisoners, which was what the kidnappers wanted most. I was very happy to hear the remaining prisoners were finally freed and they were not given all of the demands they had been asking for but was disapointed the article did not include any update on Blechschmidt.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/08/30/afghan.hostages/index.html
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