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I was ten when the Taliban came to our valley. Moniba and I had been reading the
Twilight books and longed to be vampires. It seemed to us that the Taliban arrived
in the
night just like vampires.They appeared in groups, armed with knives and
Kalashnikovs,
and first emerged in Upper Swat, in the hilly areas of Matta. They didnt
call themselves
Taliban to start with and didnt look like the Afghan Taliban wed
Malala define the Taliban as a group of vampires with have their own weapons with each of
them. This show how she feel fear to the Taliban as the first time she saw them. Further more,
there were several news about the Taliban after their took control of Pakistan. One of it was in
Peshawar school, Taliban gunmen have killed at least 126 people, including 84 children, at an
army-run school in northern Pakistan(James Rush, 14). This show the affect of the Taliban who
want to topple toward the Pakistan government and Pakistani which is not happened just one
time, but many more. The Taliban even not allow women to go to the school so any women who
want to go to the school need to covered their heads while travelled to and back from school.
While in Burma, after the SLORC took control of Burmese, according to the book Aung San Suu
References
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shot by the Taliban. London, UK: Orion Publishing Group.
Rush, J. (2014, December 16). Peshawar school attack: Who are the Pakistani Taliban and what
do they want? The Independent - Asia. Retrieved from
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