Canadian hostages: the taliban deny they have killed and raped

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Sunday, 15 October, 2017 07:21

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The taleban denied on Sunday to have killed the girl and raped the wife of the ex-hostage, canadian Joshua Boyle, as he was accused on his return to Canada, after five years of captivity in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The taliban refer to a “miscarriage” for the death of the child.

“The charges of the inmate canadian against the mujahideen of the islamic Emirate are without foundation”, announced the taliban in a statement from their spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, posted on their website.

“We categorically reject these false allegations and manufactured on the part of the hostage canada in the hands of the enemy,” he says.

“During their detention, until their release, the husband and the wife have never been separated one from the other, precisely in order not to feed suspicion”.

“Even the murder of a child is unfounded,” he continues, explaining that “the woman fell ill, and because of his serious state of health, had a miscarriage (lost) a girl. The place was isolated, there was not a doctor,” he explains.

“No one has ever killed a child of this couple, and nobody has ever raped or defiled”.

The Canadian Joshua Boyle and the American Caitlan Coleman arrived in Toronto on Saturday with their three children – two boys aged 4 and 2 years old and a girl 4 months – born during their captivity.

Mr. Boyle, who is presented alone in front of the press, said that his daughter had been killed and his wife raped because he refused to give in to “an offer” of kidnappers that he has refused to describe in detail.

According to him, these facts were confirmed by a survey carried out in 2016 by the taliban, whom he called “to secure to his family the justice that is due to him”. “If such a thing had been allowed, they would never be returned home with their three children,” replied Zabihullah Mujahid.

Ms. Coleman was pregnant when the couple has begun its journey in Afghanistan with the intention to help the populations of the regions under the control of the taliban, explained Mr Boyle.

Removed in October 2012, the family was detained by the terrorist network Haqqani, linked to the taliban and close to the military intelligence of pakistan. She was released Wednesday by the pakistani army on the faith of u.s. intelligence, reported the pakistan armed forces.