***Waduh kirain pemerintah Korea Selatan sungguh2 melindungi warga 
negaranya. Ternyata ujung2nya duit juga. 

***Tapi, kalo tidak ditagih, lebih banyak anggota Laskar Kristus ber-
duyun2 ke Afghanistan... 

SKorea seeks compensation from church for rescuing members in 
Afghanistan 

The Associated Press Sunday, October 14, 2007 

SEOUL, South Korea: South Korea's government has asked a church to 
pay some expenses from winning the release of its members, who were 
seized by the Taliban in Afghanistan after ignoring official 
warnings not to go, a news report said Sunday. 

The government officially demanded last week that the Presbyterian 
Saemmul Community Church, which sent the 23 volunteer workers to 
Afghanistan, repay some 60 million won (US$65,300; €46,000) — which 
includes airfare, hotel accommodation and the recovery of the bodies 
of two murdered hostages — Yonhap news agency said, citing a church 
official. 

A Foreign Ministry official said the government has made a 
compensation request to the church but declined to give details. She 
spoke on condition of anonymity, citing policy. 

Yonhap quoted senior church official Kwon Hyuk-soo as saying his 
church plans to reimburse the government by raising money among its 
followers. 

Calls to Kwon seeking comment went unanswered Sunday.The 23 
volunteer workers from the church were kidnapped by the Taliban on 
July 19 while traveling on a bus from Kabul to the southern city of 
Kandahar. 

The insurgents killed two male hostages soon after the kidnapping 
but freed two females in August before releasing the 19 remaining 
captives later that month under a deal between the Taliban and the 
South Korean government. 

Seoul secured their release by repeating a pledge, which it had 
first made long before the kidnappings, to withdraw its 200 troops 
in Afghanistan before year's end. It also promised not to let South 
Korean missionaries travel to the country. 

The South Korean Foreign Ministry had earlier cautioned citizens to 
refrain from traveling to Afghanistan, and has since banned all 
South Koreans from traveling there. 

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/14/asia/AS-GEN-SKorea-Afghan-
Kidnappings.php



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