Taliban kill school girls
The BBC on why 90%+ of the Afghan people support our pressence there:
A group of girls returning home from school in Afghanistan’s Logar province recently did not for a moment expect what lay ahead.
As they walked down a dirt track, insurgents sprang out of the parched farms and began firing on them.
Some of them fled into the farm, but two girls, one aged 13, the other 10, were killed in the ambush. Three of their friends were wounded.
This kind of attack on schoolchildren, the first incident of its kind in Afghanistan, highlights how the insurgents are trying to disrupt education in the war-ravaged nation.
A surge in violence over the past year threatens to neutralise the gains made by the country in sending its children back to school after the fall of the Taleban.
In the past 13 months, 226 schools, many run from tents, have been burnt down by the insurgents. A total of 110 teachers and students have been killed in incidents of indirect violence and another 52 wounded, officials say.
Officials worry that the Taleban may have begun targeting school children because of the “relative success” of a programme to protect schools.
these Talibans are utterly mad. i have no idea if they are human nor if they have what is called , a brain!
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June 27, 2007 at 5:56 pm