The fact that Taliban Militants are capable of firing upon a woman is unbelievable, but shooting at a 14 year old girl, is simply inhuman. Malala Yousafzai was shot by Taliban gunmen while she was surrounded by other school girls, injuring Malala severely as well as one of the other girls. The Taliban had ordered a shut down of all girl´s school houses. Malala started writing for the BBC Urdu when she had turned 11, two years after the Taliban had taken over.
This article truly left me breathless. Even living in Colombia, a country that has been at war for 50 years and still is, this kind of action is terrifying. This is an extraordinary example to see what kind of savage animals to the Taliban truly are. Malala was considered a public figure, a child writing about her daily life to the world. "We attacked her because she was anti-Talliban and secular, she simply could not be spared." - Ehsanullah Ehsan, statement to BBC Urdu. The arrogance of the Taliban led them to open fire upon a young girl that was simply expressing herself publicly, giving a glimpse of Taliban rule to the rest of the world.
I considered Malala a true hero after reading this article. It is a proven fact that her father and herself received death threats, since they were both activists fighting for education right of women. Malala used the pen name Gul Makai, and her real identity only emerged after the Taliban were driven to the Swat valley by Pakistani military action. For this reason, she started writing her experience under their extreme Shaira Law implementation.
Malala received a national award for bravery, as well as being nominated for an international children´s peace award. She is a true hero for her courageous writing acts, ignoring any kind of threat that presented itself.
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