Mehdi: The child killed by the Taliban

A small, unmarked grave in a remote corner of the cemetery of the village of "Boldada" in the Pato region is the last resting place of "Mehdi," a young student who was "tortured" and then "brutally" killed after being captured by the Taliban in the Hazara-dominated Jaghori district. After killing him, the Taliban called him an "apostate" and claimed that they killed Mehdi after shooting at the district building and while he was escaping. The Ete…