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Head teacher Muhammad Naeem Khan stood before a group of teachers at Garmser Secondary School in Afghanistan’s Helmand province. An atmosphere of fear pervades the town.

Lessons of life and death

Afghan schools under siege as Taliban maintain grip

By Declan Walsh
Globe Correspondent / March 16, 2006

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SARKH DOZ, Afghanistan -- Remnants of the ousted Taliban regime have launched a campaign of arson, intimidation, and assassination targeting schools and teachers in southern Afghanistan, forcing some 200 schools to close in recent months, local officials say. (Full article: 996 words)

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