Salut à tous, je m´adresse à vous car lundi j´ai une colle d´anglais. Le problème est que la prof ne m´a pas réellement expliqué ce qu´elle attendait de moi. Elle nous a juste dit de porter un regard critique sur un article de presse, extrait du dossier que chacun a fait. Le problème pour moi est que mon article ne relate que des faits, et porte sur la libération des otages sud-coréens en Afghanistan. J´ai donc beaucoup de mal à établir un plan. Pourriez vous m´aider, me donnez des pistes? L´article, pour les courageux est le suivant:
Taliban Free Remaining 7 Koreans Held Captive
KABUL, Afghanistan, Aug. 30 — The Taliban freed the seven remaining South Korean hostages in central Afghanistan on Thursday, Afghan officials announced, ending a six-week hostage crisis that had placed enormous political pressure on the South Korean government.
Shah Marai/Agence France-Presse
One of the South Koreans freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan walked past journalists on Thursday.
All of the hostages appeared to be in good condition, the officials said. But signs quickly emerged that South Korea’s decision to hold direct talks with the Taliban might have emboldened the group.
After the release of the Korean hostages, Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, said in a telephone interview that the Taliban wanted direct negotiations with the German government regarding a German engineer kidnapped by the group one day before the South Koreans’ abduction. Mr. Ahmadi said German officials had refused to hold direct talks with the Taliban. “We haven’t decided the fate of the German,” he said. “No one is asking about him.”
The release of the Koreans prompted journalists to ask German officials this week why they, too, had not begun direct negotiations with the Taliban. A spokesman for the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, said that the German government was doing all it could to win the engineer’s release, but that it would not be “blackmailed” by the Taliban.
The Taliban kidnapped 23 Koreans, who were working as Christian aid volunteers, on a highway in central Afghanistan last month. When the Afghan government refused a Taliban demand that Taliban prisoners be released in exchange for the South Koreans, the Taliban killed two men in the group. After a South Korean delegation held direct talks with the Taliban, the militants released two women as a sign of good will two weeks ago.
On Tuesday, the two sides announced that they had reached an agreement. The next day, the Taliban freed 12 of the remaining hostages, who had been held in small groups across central Afghanistan. All 19 of the freed hostages are expected to fly to South Korea together soon.
Under the agreement, South Korea reaffirmed a pledge to withdraw its 200 troops from Afghanistan by the end of this year, as previously planned, and agreed to prevent any evangelical activities by South Korean churches in Afghanistan. The Taliban, for its part, dropped a demand that eight senior Taliban prisoners be released in exchange for the South Koreans.
There was continued speculation in Kabul that South Korea had paid a ransom for the release of the hostages. But South Korean and Taliban officials continued to deny that any money was paid. Afghan officials have said that paying a ransom to the Taliban would only encourage them to kidnap more foreigners.
In Washington on Thursday, a State Department spokesman, Tom Casey, welcomed the hostages’ release, The Associated Press reported. Asked if South Korea’s negotiations with the Taliban set a precedent, he said American government policy remained to “not to make concessions to terrorists.”
In South Korea, there has been a mixed reaction to the episode. There has been an outpouring of concern for the hostages but also criticism of the church’s decision to send the volunteers into such a dangerous area.
On Thursday, the father of one of the hostages who was killed criticized the church. “I wonder why the church was so reckless in taking them to the dangerous country,” Shim Chin-pyo, whose 29-year-old son was killed, told Agence France-Presse. “They were in the wrong place at the wrong time, moving in such a conspicuous manner.”
The volunteers were kidnapped by the Taliban on July 19 while traveling by public bus from Kabul to the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Few foreigners travel that route by car or public bus because it is considered extremely dangerous.
The South Korean government and the church that sent them, the Saemmul Presbyterian Church, have said that the church members were sent as aid workers for schools and hospitals, not to spread Christianity in this Muslim country.
Across Afghanistan this year, the Taliban have increasingly used the kidnapping of foreigners as a tactic to gain publicity, the release of prisoners and, most likely, ransoms […]
