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After that massacre, I met one of the kids who survived the attack. His name is Tawfik and he is 10 years old from al Sukkary area. He is still recovering from the massacre, but he is trauamtized after what he witnessed. When I met him he told me: “Suddenly my friends was ripped in pieces and scattered on top of me. I was feeling nothing around me, I only saw blood.” Now Tawfik, and many other kids, never go to school. They are too afraid. And this is the plan of the regime. These bombings of schools aren’t only a disaster for the families who are losing their youngest, but also for the whole education system and the future for our liberated areas. Because parents have, for understandable reasons, stopped sending their children to school. We teachers try to practice our profession in basements or other shelters who are less dangerous, but the regime are really furious in targeting us whenever they get information about our hidden schools. They try to destroy every hope for a future. And as brutal as ever, Assad aims at our children. My name is Asma Assad. My friends and I used to wake up and go to school at 7 am and come back in the afternoon. We went there always. We were happy at school. But one day, the bell suddenly rang and never stopped, so we went down to the schoolyard to look what was going on. Seconds later the school was leveled by bombs dropped by a plane. Students were injured and many were killed directly at the schoolyard. Only a couple of girls and I are still alive. Those who were still alive but injured went to the hospital. The teachers went to check them but new bombs was dropped and shatter and shrapnel hurt them. The teachers closed the school after this, but they reopened in a new location after a week. We started school again. But so many in my class were missing. Asma Assad - 9 year old student. Ali Ghazal, teacher in liberated Aleppo 116
117 Over 20 000 children have been killed by the regime since 2011.That is over 94% percents of all killed children in Syria. One quarter of Syrian schools have been damaged, destroyed, or is used as shelters or for other purpose than education. Between 2011 and 2014 at least 3878 schools was targeted by the regime. Schools are protected from attacks by International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law.
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