Attackers ‘Gouge Out Afghan Man’s Eyes’

Posted by: Tristan

Here’s a fun story out of Afghanistan:

Armed assailants have attacked a man, gouging out his eyes in front of his family in southern Afghanistan, officials say.

The man, Sayed Ghulam, is being treated in a hospital in the southern city of Kandahar.

Ghulam, 52, said three armed men knocked on his door in the Sangin district of Helmand province late Thursday. After he opened the door, they punched him in the face, put the barrel of a Kalashnikov rifle in his mouth and gouged out his eyes with a knife in the presence of his wife and seven children.

"I was crying, along with my children and wife, who was screaming for help, but they didn’t listen," Ghulam told The Associated Press from his hospital room in Kandahar.

Ghulam, a farmer, said he doesn’t know why he was attacked.

What a charming band of douchebags.  Who could they be?

Ghulam, whose head was almost completely wrapped in a large white bandage, said his attackers were wearing black turbans on their head like many Taliban fighters, but that he didn’t know who carried out the attack.

Taliban militants sometimes carry out harsh punishments for people they accuse of being thieves or "spies" for the Afghan government. Such punishments have included cutting off people’s hands or tarring and parading them publicly, but few reports of people having their eyes gouged out have surfaced in Afghanistan in recent years.