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IN AFGHANISTAN: THOU SHALT NOT LEARN!
24 March, 2008
Dear readers and fellow-Apes; as always: actual article or report in SEA GREEN, highlights in RED, comments in BLACK, and FACTS and all things GOOD and TRUE in BLUE
According to Osama Bin Lead-Laden-Head Ladin’s creation and legacy to the Moslem World, The Taliban and ITS several tentacles: “Thou shalt not learn! Thou shalt remain as thou art: illiterate and ignorant! For thus, and only thus shall we be able to Mis-rule, Mis-handle, Manipulate, and Exploit ye; for knowledge to such as ye is a very dangerous thing!”

IRIN News 8th October, 2007

LASHKARGAH: More than 30,000 pupils who had attended schools in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan in 2006 were absent in 2007, the department of education told IRIN. About 102,700 students attended schools in 2006; fewer than 14 percent of them were girls.

In 2002, less than a year after the Taliban had been toppled, there were over 224 functioning schools all over the province.

For the past 15 months, gunmen associated with Taliban militants and other armed radical groups have torched more than 20 schools and killed 17 students, teachers, and staff. In several districts, 98 schools remain closed due to insecurity - the fear of being killed for wanting to learn something other than death and destruction.

A 13-year-old student was reportedly shot dead on his way to Zokur high school in Lashkargah in February 2007.

Four days later armed assailants started shooting indiscriminately outside Karte Laghan School, killing a student and a gatekeeper, officials said.

Others face threats from Taliban insurgents and criminal gangs. On 30th Sept. 2007, armed Taliban men reportedly hanged a 15-year-old boy for insisting and persisting on going to school in Sangin District but later claimed they had executed the boy on charges of spying for foreign troops in Afghanistan - imagine a 15-year-old spy.

Female students increase:

Ironically, numbers of female students have steadily increased, with 14,500 now against 12,228 in 2006, government statistics show.

During their reign of terror, suppression, oppression, intimidation, and exploitation - from 1996 to 2001 - The Taliban banned females from going to school.
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