Malala Yousafzai opens a school for girls in Lebanon – says invest in books, not bullets

#booksnotbullets #malalayousafzai #syrianrefugees #bekkavalley Malala Yousafzai, the education activist and Nobel Laureate marked her 18th birthday by opening a school in for Syrian refugee girls in Lebanon and on the occasion she urged the global leaders to reduce military expenditure so that it can facilitate the education of children worldwide. Invest in books and not bullets is show she put it.
This has been reported in zeenews.india.com dated 13 July 2015.

The school named "Malala Yousafzai All-Girls School" and financed by Malala Fund has opened near Syria border in Lebanon's Bekka Valley.
While speaking on the occasion she said that if the whole world stopped spending money on the military for just 8 days, we could have the $39 billion still needed to provide 12 years of free, quality education to every child on the planet.
She has written as such in a blog for the Malala Fund.
Terming the situation in Syria as a “heartbreaking tragedy”, she has heaped rebuke on world leaders for having failed Syrian children by ignoring their education needs.
It may be remembered that in 2012, while on a bus returning from the school, Malala was shot in head by three bullets fired by Talibani militants because she used to campaign for girls' education. She was flown to Britain for treatment and later settled in Birmingham. She now studies at Edgbaston High School.
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#bokoharam #crimea #ISIS #PakTaliban 2014 was a year of bloodshed, terrorism and violence from Syria to Ukraine and the atrocities of the ISIS in Iraq, the Boko Haram in Nigeria and the Pakistani Taliban in Pakistan.
While the civil population revolted against the authoritarian rule of its President Bashar al-Assad and the US and Russia took sides for and against President Assad, other countries were divided on which side to support. It became a daily war on the streets and loss of innocent lives with refugees spilling over to neighboring countries. Till the ISIS descended on the scene.
This was the new face of terror and its brutal methods sent shock waves throughout the world. In order to prove its intentions, it beheaded a number of American and British captives and sent across the videos. Then there were the atrocities committed on women with reports of them slaughtering the women en-masse if they refused to get converted to Islam or get married to members of the ISIS. Many women had been kept as sex slaves. As a result, the US and Europe began attacking ISIS hideouts and eliminating its leaders. The nature of bloodshed unleashed by the ISIS has no parallels in history.
The Boko-Haram in Nigeria is another dreaded terror setup - in April, it kidnapped a group of 250 schoolgirls from a school in Chibok. The girls are believed to have been kept prisoners in a jungle and, while a few of them have managed to escape, the fate of the others ae not known even after nine months. Unconfirmed reports have indicated that they might have been sold off as sex slaves. Recently, the terror group attacked a village and took away women and children as hostages after killing the men and burning down the village.
And, of course, the annexation of Crimea by Russia led to a fight with Ukraine in which Europe sided with Ukraine and imposed sanctions on Russia, it was a fight between the government forces of Ukraine against the pro-Russian supporters who had installed their own rule in Crimea and took over important towns. This fight has led to death of hundreds and thousands have been displaced from their homes.