Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

Update: 2022-05-11

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Part two: Shoaib talks about being captured by the Taliban, surviving two near executions, forming a bond with his captors, and how and why he stopped his fellow prisoners from killing their Taliban jailers.

Shoaib has been covering his home country for the last 22 years. He's a former BBC World Service Kabul bureau chief who launched the acclaimed political debate program Open Jirga (a co-production between BBC Media Action and BBC World Service).

Shoaib is one of the few Afghan journalists who decided to stay on after the Taliban took power in August, 2021, and he's currently the country director for BBC media action, the BBC’s international development organisation. Show Notes:

Watch Shoaib’s BAFTA winning documentary My Childhood, My Country: 20 Years in Afghanistan on ITV Hub
The film won BAFTA Single Documentary award 2022 and is produced by Seventh Art Productions
Follow Shoaib on Twitter @shoaibsharifi1

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Sebastian Junger : Some sand sort of sprayed into the side of my face. I was like, damn, what was that? And then I heard the burst

2022-06-2901:05:16

Guillermo Galdos (part two) : Two Black Hawk helicopters appeared on top of us…spraying with bullets. I remember hearing the trees falling down. It looked like the end of the world

2022-06-2201:05:53

Guillermo Galdos (part one) : This guy was shooting his gun.... And suddenly they hit him in the head, right in the forehead. And I remember thinking, what the hell am I doing here?

2022-06-1558:10

Anas Aremeyaw Anas : We don’t care you are journalists. The rule is simple. We will kill you

2022-06-0859:45

Mais Al-Bayaa (part two) : I kept screaming “is anyone alive?” but I did not hear anyone. I genuinely thought I was dead

2022-06-0147:19

Mais Al-Bayaa (part one) : I was asleep in my bed, three bullets came just above my head and the curtain was burned

2022-05-2545:17

Sam Kiley : It wasn’t a question of talking your way out of it, it was all over, it was just waiting for the bullet

2022-05-1847:41

Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

2022-05-1101:09:26

Shoaib Sharifi (part one) : My heart started pounding and the man with a dagger approaching to chop a head, and I fainted

2022-05-0448:01

Janine di Giovanni : I had been told this before that they would just assassinate me because they didn’t want any witnesses

2022-04-2758:45

Stuart Ramsay : lying on the back, just watching the whole car slowly but surely disintegrate… I said to myself I am going to die and I wonder if it's going to hurt

2022-04-2056:25

Clarissa Ward : Two thoughts…I really might die, this could be it… and what am I doing here?

2022-04-1148:21

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Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

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Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried

Shoaib Sharifi (part two) : Your head will be chopped after 4 o’ clock today. I felt, tasted and smelt death, and I cried