Thursday, January 15, 2009

Afghanistan: acid attack girls return to school!!! Wow!

One morning two months ago, Shamsia Husseini and her sister were walking through the muddy streets to the local girls school when a man pulled alongside them on a motorcycle and posed what seemed like an ordinary question.

“Are you going to school?”

Then the man pulled Shamsia’s burqa from her head and sprayed her face with burning acid. Scars, jagged and discolored, now spread across Shamsia’s eyelids and most of her left cheek. These days, her vision goes blurry, making it hard for her to read.

But if the acid attack against Shamsia and 14 others — students and teachers — was meant to terrorize the girls into staying home, it appears to have completely failed. More...

See also:

  1. Pakistan: dancing girls flee Taliban terror...
  2. Pakistan: Taliban set to ban girls from schools...
  3. The silent terrorism: acid attacks on women...
  4. Afghan schoolgirls sprayed with acid for wanting to be educated...

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