Poisoning hits on Afghan Girls schools

HASCO News / 14  May 2009 Vienna

Once again recently 97Afghan innocent schoolgirls were rushed to Hospital in the latest in a spate of poisoning gas to hit girl schools in Afghanistan, the children fell ill as they entered the school building in Kapisa province 70 kilometres north of Kabul,The incident is the third of its kind within few months, similar incident have happened about 20 kilometres away in the town of Charekaar where 60 schoolgirls and one of their teacher were treated in Hospital.

Last November, men on motorbikes used water pistols to squirt acid in girls' faces as they walked to school on the outskirts of Kandahar city, dozen girls and several teachers at the Mirwais Girls School had the acid thrown in their faces and one of them was so badly disfigured, she had to go abroad for treatment.

The attacks caused such distress and fear among their families that many parents kept their girls at home for several weeks but most have since returned to school, vowing not to be intimidated.

During last three years tens of schools have come under attack in different part of Afghanistan by insurgents opposed to girls' education. Schools have been attacked and torched; teachers and school children have been murdered.

It seems all these attacks are coordinated plan of Afghanistan enemies to deprive Afghan children from their basic right of education and schooling; these elements want to kept Afghan girls and young generation in darkness without education in this 21 century 

HASCO strongly condemns such barbaric act against Afghan school Girls and ask Afghan authorities and local communities to take all necessary measures to prevent the occurrence of such incident in the future.