Afghan school girls 'poisoned'

[ensho]

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/04/201042663711279658.html


At least 13 girls have fallen ill after a suspected poisonous gas attack at a school in northern Afghanistan.

The government has accused fighters opposed to female education of being behind the attack.

Sunday's incident - the third in Kunduz province - brings to 80 the number of school girls reporting symptoms such as headaches, vomiting and shivering after suspected poisoning.

On Saturday, 47 girls from a different school had reported feeling dizzy and nauseous, while on Wednesday 23 girls said they felt unwell under similar circumstances.

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But a Taliban spokesman denied the group had any involvement in the attack, and condemned the targeting of school girls.

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In parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan, particularly in Taliban strongholds, schools for girls still remain closed.
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its so much fun being a female in the dark ages in Afghanistan

why can't our military hunt down the men that do this?

[leftynyc]

1. Why don't the Afghan men/police

go looking for and catch these fucking animals? As soon as our military leaves, the women become an endangered species unless they go back to the lives of slaves they lived during the taliban. I'd love to airlift all the women out of that shithole.

[ensho]

2. if only we could

nt

[Bragi]

3. Nothing US troops can do, really

ensho asks: why can't our military hunt down the men that do this?

The reason that can't happen is that the vast majority of men in that society hold medevil views regarding women. They always have, and this won't have changed by the time the US is forced to abandon its pointless war there.

The reality is that this country is a hopeless disaster that has been run by warlords, drug barons and religious thugs for hundreds of years.

That isn't going to change. Thinking otherwise is folly rooted in cultural arrogance and an ignorance of history.

[ensho]

4. well I'm not going to give up on freeing the women

nothing stays the same, everything changes.

its just that sometimes it takes a very long time.