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| Subject: Afghanistan: Risking their lives for an education Sat Jun 09, 2012 4:59 am | |
| Afghan girls are being poisoned for going to school, reports Ben Doherty.
When the Taliban was ousted from Afghanistan in 2001, there were 5000 girls enrolled in schools across the country. A little over a decade on, that number is 2.4 million.Today, in the capital Kabul, the sight of dozens of girls walking to school together is so commonplace as to be unremarkable.
But for girls in Afghanistan, getting an education remains a fraught, and at times, dangerous endeavour. The Afghan National Directorate for Security this week announced the arrest of 15 people for their alleged role in spraying the grounds of girls' schools in Takhar province with a yet to be identified poison.
Six schools had been targeted in the past three weeks. More than 400 girls fell ill. None have died. But these were only the latest in a spate of attacks.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/risking-their-lives-for-an-education-20120608-201fj.html#ixzz1xHinsoZn
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