Talk:People's Peace Movement (Afghanistan)

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Did you know... that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped and later freed by the Taliban in late December 2019?

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The result was: promoted by Desertarun (talk) 07:49, 11 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... ~~that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped by the Taliban and freed a day later?~~ Twenty-seven members of a peace group have been kidnapped by the Taliban as they travelled in western Afghanistan, local officials and activists say. The People's Peace Movement (PPM) began its march... BBC, 2019-12-25;
Twenty-seven members of a peace group who were kidnapped as they travelled in western Afghanistan have been released, local media say. The People's Peace Movement (PPM) disappeared ... The Taliban were suspected of being behind it. BBC, 2019-12-26;
The Taliban released 27 peace activists Thursday, a day after they were abducted in an ambush on their convoy in western Afghanistan... said Bismillah Watandost of the People's Peace Movement of Afghanistan. ABC, 2019-12-26

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Created by Boud (talk). Self-nominated at 00:43, 7 June 2021 (UTC).[reply]

Hi Boud, thanks for letting me know about this interesting article; review follows: article created 3 June and exceeds minimum length; article is well written and cited inline throughout to reliable sources; I found no overly close paraphrasing in a spot check on the sources; a QPQ has been carried out; hook is interesting but the date of kidnapping needs clarification. The BBC source used for the 25 December date does not mention the day they were kidnapped. Although the ABC article says "The Taliban released 27 peace activists Thursday, a day after they were abducted in an ambush on their convoy in western Afghanistan" it later clarifies that "The insurgents ambushed the group in the district of Bala Buluk in Farah province Tuesday". The Tuesday in 2019 would have been 24 December, not 25 December as stated in the article - Dumelow (talk) 06:48, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- hi Dumelow. You're correct: I missed that. I agree that the ABC source is ambiguous about whether the kidnapping duration was one or two days. See if you're happy with my edit in the article. However, for the hook, I don't think that the "sorry-but-our-source-is-ambiguous-and-you'll-have-to-live-with-that" style would look hooky, so I'm proposing ALT1 and withdrawing the original hook. I included "late December 2019" because it tells the reader that the time scale of kidnapping and release is somewhere on the few days/weeks time scale, but without sounding weaselly. It also shows that this was fairly recent. My feeling is that "later" is needed because it reduces the likelihood of a reader guessing that the kidnapping and release happened almost immediately one after the other.
  ALT1 ... that 27 Afghan peace activists of the People's Peace Movement were kidnapped and later freed by the Taliban in late December 2019? Boud (talk) 21:25, 9 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I suspect it could be that they were abducted late on 24 December and released early on 26 December, meaning they were held for only a little over a day. Happy to approve ALT1 - Dumelow (talk) 06:46, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]