01-03-2007, 09:36 PM
Do it for the kids, man. Insurgents torch newly-built refugee school
INSURGENTS torched a newly built school for refugee children in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, in the first such attack in 2007 blamed on Taliban militants.
A spate of similar attacks last year on schools and teachers were mostly blamed on Taliban rebels conducting an insurgency to overthrow the Government and expel foreign troops trying to bring stability.
The school was set alight in the eastern province of Nangarhar near the border with Pakistan was made up of tents from the UN children's fund, UNICEF, provincial spokesman Hazrat Hussain said.
“Five tents of a new UNICEF-built school were burned down last night in Behsud district,” he said.
Destroying and maiming in place of embracing and nurturing.