TWELVE-year-old Farida was scared about going to school for her science examination, but it wasn't pre-test nerves.
The night before, unidentified assailants drove across the dusty plain to her village in central Logar province, in Afghanistan, doused three tented classrooms in gasoline and set fire to them. The arsonists fled as the tents burned to the ground last week.
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