14-Year-Old Blogger, Peace Prize Winner Shot by Taliban
A Taliban spokesperson, Insnaullah Ishan, told CNN Yousafzai was targeted for spreading feminist messages.
“She wanted to make our women leave their homes for secular education, something the Taliban will never permit,” Ishan said.
In Yousafzai’s blog, which has reached the eyes of readers around the world, she explains the fear of going to school amid fear of Taliban attacks. She hides her books under her bed, fearing a house search, which the Taliban would conduct to investigate whether she is watching TV or studying. The group had banned girls from attaining formal education in the Swat region where the teen lives and which remained under Taliban control until a 2009 military operation.
“I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban,” she wrote in January 2009. “I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools.”
In November 2011, she earned the National Peace Prize, winning 500,000 rupees ($5,780), which will now be awarded annually to children and teens under 18 contributing to education and peace building.
This is a clip from Pakistan’s Express Tribune interviews some survivors of the attack.
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