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Piotr Sta?czak

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Piotr Sta?czak
Born 23 July 1966
Potok , Poland
Died ( 2009-02-07 ) 7 February 2009
Razmak , Pakistan
Nationality Polish
Known for Being beheaded by Pakistani terrorists
Awards Order of Polonia Restituta (2010)
Scientific career
Fields Geology
Institutions Quaid-i-Azam University

Piotr Sta?czak (23 July 1966 ? 7 February 2009) was a Polish geologist who was abducted and beheaded by Islamist terrorists in Pakistan in February 2009. [1]

Abduction [ edit ]

Sta?czak was abducted in the city of Attock in September 2008 after gunmen shot dead his driver, translator and bodyguard with whom he was travelling in a car. [2] His murderers said they murdered him because the Pakistani government failed to release Taliban prisoners. [1] Officials at the Polish Embassy in Islamabad saw the video of the murder and confirmed that the person who was murdered was Piotr Sta?czak. [3]

Murder [ edit ]

The taped murder was reminiscent of the beheading in 2002 of Daniel Pearl , at that time the last Westerner to be murdered on video in Pakistan. Sta?czak was allegedly offered the opportunity to avoid death by converting to Islam. [4] When Sta?czak refused, he was forced to read statements before his murder. The video shows Sta?czak asking the Polish government not to send troops to Afghanistan, which later leads to the masked men cutting off Sta?czak's head.

Aftermath [ edit ]

Sta?czak's body was later recovered outside a paramilitary camp in Razmak and returned to Poland aboard a Pakistani Air Force plane. A brief ceremony was held on the tarmac. [5] [6]

The Polish government issued international arrest warrants for the murderers, in addition to offering a 1 million złoty (about $290,000 USD ) reward for information that would lead to the arrest of the suspects. [7] Warsaw also "categorically demands from Pakistan's authorities the capture of the culprits of this crime and their punishment with the full severity this act demands" , according to a statement released by the Polish Foreign Ministry. [7] Poland requested help from the United States in their efforts to catch the killers. [7]

On July 25, 2009, Pakistani police arrested a former parliamentarian with close links to the Taliban, Shah Abdul Aziz , in connection with the murder of Sta?czak. A captured member of the Taliban told an anti-terrorism court that he was given orders by Aziz to kill Sta?czak. [8]

On September 30, 2010, the President of Poland posthumously awarded him the Officer's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta . [9]

In November 2017 another Al-Qaeda commander responsible for multiple kidnappings, including Sta?czak, was arrested in Afghanistan . [10]

See also [ edit ]

References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b Shah, Saeed (2009-02-09). "Polish man beheaded in Pakistani militant video" . London: The Guardian . Retrieved 2009-02-09 .
  2. ^ BBC.co.uk
  3. ^ "Suspected Taliban Militants Kill Polish Hostage" . Voice of America. 2009-02-09 . Retrieved 2009-02-09 .
  4. ^ "Polish engineer's refusal to convert costs him his life" Archived 2009-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ The Guardian report of Sta?czak's murder
  6. ^ Newsvine.com's report on Sta?czak
  7. ^ a b c "Poland asks US to help find killers" . The Sydney Morning Herald. 2009-02-11 . Retrieved 2009-02-11 .
  8. ^ "Arrest after Polish Afghan death" . BBC News. 2009-07-25 . Retrieved 2009-07-26 .
  9. ^ Monitor Polski 2011 nr 3 poz. 27
  10. ^ RCZPI|2017, made by. "Komunikat MON" (in Polish) . Retrieved 2017-11-17 . {{ cite news }} : CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list ( link )
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