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oberliner

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Mon Jan 12, 2015, 12:52 PM Jan 2015

Students Return to Peshawar School After Taliban Massacre

Source: NBC News

PPESHAWAR, Pakistan - Emotional students bravely returned to a military-run school in Pakistan Monday for the first time since Taliban terrorists massacred 153 people.

Extra security measures were put in place as children arrived at the Army Public School in Peshawar, where militants in suicide vests laid siege to classrooms, shooting indiscriminately into crowds or killing youngsters one by one. Schools across the country were ordered shut after the Dec. 16 atrocity — which ended with 134 children dead.

Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif and his wife were on hand to greet students and their parents at the scene of the killings, while victims' families were invited to special ceremony.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pakistan-school-massacre/students-return-peshawar-school-after-taliban-massacre-n284376

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Students Return to Peshawar School After Taliban Massacre (Original Post) oberliner Jan 2015 OP
It's something, to see kids march back into a school where their classmates were murdered. jtuck004 Jan 2015 #1
 

jtuck004

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1. It's something, to see kids march back into a school where their classmates were murdered.
Mon Jan 12, 2015, 01:06 PM
Jan 2015

Marching in the street is one thing, but this is on a different level. And bad guys are still out there.



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