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EDUCATION UNDER ATTACK 2014of incidents decreased very significantly when theMaoist insurgency ended in 2006 and, althoughattacks flared up in the Terai region after that, theypetered out at the start of 2009. 59By contrast, in many Middle Eastern and North Africancountries, there was a sharp rise in attacks and in themilitary use of schools as Arab Spring protests anduprisings took hold from December 2010 onwards.In collecting and analysing data from the period 2009-2012, this study has found a significantly greaternumber of countries in which there is evidence of veryhigh or high levels of attack on education comparedwith the periods covered by the previous twoEducation under Attack studies published in 2010 andMourners lower the Somalia flag-draped body of Minister ofeducation Ahmed Abdulahi Wayel for burial in Mogadishu, Somalia,4 December 2009, after he was killed by a suicide bombing at aBenadir University medical school graduation ceremony.© 2009 AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh2007. It is difficult to know whether this represents anactual increase in incidence or whether increasedattention to this issue among media, human rightsgroups, and humanitarian and development organizationssince the publication of the last two studies,combined with improved access to local mediasources via the internet, has simply resulted in theavailability of more and better information.45