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EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK 2014<br />
in public schools,” AsiaNews.it, 20 July 2011; and “Police ignore attack on<br />
school: Christian NGO,” UCAN India, 16 July 2012.<br />
768 Christian Solidarity Worldwide, India: Communalism, anti-Christian violence<br />
and the law (Surrey, UK: Christian Solidarity Worldwide, May 2010), 28; and<br />
“India Hindu Militants Attack Missionary School, Christians Say,” Worthy News,<br />
8 July 2009.<br />
769 “Kashmir: Huriyat Supporters Attack School Buses,” OneIndia News, 28<br />
September 2010; “Omar asks Geelani, separatists not to target school children,”<br />
The Indian Express, 27 September 2010; and “School bus torched to enforce<br />
bandh in J&K,” The Times of India, 5 December 2010.<br />
770 “Protests in Srinagar, Islamabad,” GK News Network, 7 October 2010; and<br />
“School bus torched to enforce bandh in J&K, The Times of India,” 5 December<br />
2010.<br />
771 GCPEA, Lessons in War: Military Use of Schools and Other Education<br />
Institutions during Conflict (New York: GCPEA, 2012), 30.<br />
772 Ibid., 22.<br />
773 GCPEA and Human Rights Watch, “Submission on the Third and Fourth<br />
Periodic Report of India to the Committee on the Rights of the Child,” 29 August<br />
2013.<br />
774 HRW, Sabotaged Schooling: Naxalite Attacks and Police Occupation of<br />
Schools in India’s Bihar and Jharkhand States (New York: HRW, 9 December<br />
2009), 56.<br />
775 Ibid.<br />
776 SATP, “University professor shot dead in Manipur,” 27 May 2009. For information<br />
on KYKL, see also:<br />
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/india/states/manipur/terrorist_outfits<br />
/kykl.htm<br />
777 “Two student leaders wounded in Nagaland,” Sangai Express, 5 May 2009.<br />
778 The Home Ministry reported three attacks by September, see: Home Ministry<br />
Naxal Management Division, untitled fact sheet on Maoist insurgency,<br />
http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/FAQs_NM_241013.pdf; “Naxals<br />
grow bolder, blow up school in Bihar,” Rediff, 15 June 2013; IANS, “Maoists blow<br />
up school in Bihar,” The New Indian Express, 15 June 2013; and ANI, “Fear grips<br />
students as Maoists destroy school wall in Jharkhand’s Latehar district,” 16<br />
March 2013.<br />
779 PRI, “Naxals persuade school children to join their outfits in Jharkhand,” The<br />
Indian Express, 25 February 2013; and PTI, “Naxalites recruiting school kids in<br />
state,” Times of India, 4 July 2013.<br />
780 “India: Four girls abducted from a Christian school and gang raped,” Vatican<br />
Insider, 20 July 2013.<br />
781 Associated Press, “Kashmir militants in deadly attack on Indian security<br />
forces,” The Guardian, 13 March 2013.<br />
782 This profile covers attacks on education in 2009-2012 and has an additional<br />
section on attacks in 2013.<br />
783 HRW, In Religion’s Name: Attacks against Religious Minorities in Indonesia<br />
(New York: HRW, February 2013), 16.<br />
784 Ibid., 14, 19-20.<br />
785 AFP, “Indonesian police detain 49 in school terror raid,” South China Morning<br />
Post, 13 November 2012.<br />
786 UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), “Education (all levels) Profile -<br />
Indonesia,” UIS Statistics in Brief (2011).<br />
787 Vento Saudale, “Young attackers of Cisalada Ahmadiyah sent to prison,”<br />
Jakarta Globe, 14 April 2011; and HRW, In Religion’s Name: Attacks against<br />
Religious Minorities in Indonesia (New York: HRW, February 2013), 89.<br />
788 HRW, In Religion’s Name: Attacks against Religious Minorities in Indonesia<br />
(New York: HRW, February 2013), 58-9.<br />
789 Ibid., 59.<br />
790<br />
You Tube account hariri58, “Aksi Pembakaran Kelompok Syiah oleh Sunni di<br />
Sampang Madura,” 29 December 2011,<br />
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=362RWe8H0zQ; and information provided by<br />
a Human Rights Watch researcher, July 2013.<br />
791 “Blasphemous blog post leads to school attack,” UCA News, 7 May 2010; and<br />
The Associated Press, Bekasi, “Islamists eye proselytizing Christians,” The<br />
Jakarta Post, 3 July 2010.<br />
792 “RI govt urged to address religious intolerance,” Antara News, 9 February<br />
2011.<br />
793 Mathias Hariyadi, “Muslim students attack Catholic schools in Yogyakarta<br />
over a Facebook post,” 25 January 2012.<br />
794 Dessy Sagita, Amir Tejo, and Markus Junianto Sihaloho, “Two Killed as Hard-<br />
Liners Attack Shia School Group,” The Jakarta Globe, 27 August 2012;<br />
“Yudhoyono turns a blind eye,” The Australian, 1 September 2012; “SBY: Lack of<br />
intelligence let down Shia victims,” The Jakarta Globe, 28 August 2012; and AFP,<br />
“Two Shiite Muslims killed in mob attack in Indonesia,” Tehran Times, 27 August<br />
2012.<br />
795 “Bentrokan Di Balai Pengajian, 1 Tewas Terkapar,” Warta Aceh, 17 November<br />
2012; HRW, World Report 2013: Indonesia (New York: HRW, 2013; and information<br />
provided by Human Rights Watch on 6 November 2013.<br />
796 AFP, “Indonesian police detain 49 in school terror raid,” South China Morning<br />
Post, 13 November 2012; and Farouk Arnaz, “Islamic School Head Arrested in<br />
Terrorism Sweep Faces Forgery Charge,” The Jakarta Globe, 19 November 2012.<br />
797 Anita Rachman, “Terror Agency to Deal with Extremism at Indonesian<br />
Universities,” The Jakarta Globe, 8 November 2010.<br />
798 West Papua Media, “Police torture students after brutal attack on Abepura<br />
university dormitory,” West Papua Media Alerts, 28 August 2012.<br />
799 Andreas Harsono, HRW researcher, “Sufi Muslims feel the heat of Indonesia’s<br />
rising intolerance,” The Jakarta Globe, 15 August 2013.<br />
800 Ibid.<br />
801 Ryan Dagur, “Bomb attack at Jakarta Catholic school sparks security alert,”<br />
UCA News, 7 August 2013.<br />
802 This profile covers attacks on education in 2009-2012 and has an additional<br />
section on attacks in 2013.<br />
803 Amnesty International, “Iran’s Crackdown on Dissent Widens with Hundreds<br />
Unjustly Imprisoned,” 9 June 2010.<br />
804 HRW, “Iran: Escalating Repression of University Students,” 7 December 2010.<br />
805 Yojana Sharma, “Iran: Students Killed, Arrested in Egypt-Style Protests,”<br />
University World News, 17 February 2011.<br />
806 Amnesty International, “Iran’s Crackdown on Dissent Widens with Hundreds<br />
Unjustly Imprisoned,” 9 June 2010.<br />
807 Human Rights Council (HRC), Report of the Special Rapporteur on the<br />
Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, A/HRC/19/66, 6<br />
March 2012, para 63; International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, “Political<br />
Executions Indication of Government’s Insecurity,” 9 May 2010; Education<br />
International, “Farzad Kamangar: EI outraged at Iranian teacher’s execution,” 10<br />
May 2010; and “In memory of Farzad Karmanger, Iranian Kurdish teacher,” The<br />
Guardian, 16 May 2012.<br />
808 Farnaz Fassihi, “Regime Wages a Quiet War on ‘Star Students’ of Iran,” The<br />
Wall Street Journal, 31 December 2009.<br />
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