unfaithful freindship

[Nora]

i don't know if it was during mujahedin's time or taliban but when i was very very young, i remember one of our neighbors getting murdered by his best friend and his son. they invited him over for tea and just before he was leaving their house, they smacked him in the head with an axe.
thanks God we got out when we did. one day we woke up and found the entire village empty. three of my father's friends came to get us but by the time we made it out through the yard's door, there were men with guns everywhere.

was he alive? and why the village was empty?