Ahmad Massoud is the most prominent resistance fighter against the Taliban in Afghanistan. For safety reasons, it is constantly on the move. On the occasion of the Afghanistan conference in Vienna, the “Krone” met him for an interview at the Grand Hotel. The 33-year-old spoke about the lack of aid from abroad, his father’s legacy and a desire to breathe Afghan air again.
Ahmad Shah Massoud, who, according to legend, single-handedly threw the Soviets out of Afghanistan in 1989, was assassinated by the Taliban in 2001. Many Afghans hope his son Ahmad Massoud would do the same as his father and drive the enemy, in this case the Taliban, out of the country. What is it like to live with the burden of the father who is reverently called “the lion of Panjshir”? “He was a soldier, I’m a politician,” the 33-year-old said in an interview with Krone. “He had the support of the West. Nobody helps us.”
Source: Krone
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