Malala shocked as crying Burundian girls recall rape fleeing war


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  • Saturday, 16 Jul 2016

Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai meets Burundian refugees at the Mahama refugee camp, Rwanda, July 14, 2016. Picture taken July 14, 2016. REUTERS/Katy Migiro

MAHAMA, Rwanda (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - More than a dozen schoolgirls broke down in tears as one told Malala Yousafzai about the rapes they experienced and witnessed while fleeing to Rwanda in 2015 to escape fighting in Burundi.

The 19-year-old Pakistani education activist was visibly moved by the sobbing Burundian refugees.

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