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From Malala to Parkland, why are the victims demonised? | Nesrine Malik

The Nobel prize winner and the Florida school children have been vilified. It’s because the powerful want to stay in control
Malala Yousafzai on her return to her home town in Pakistan’s Swat valley, 31 March 2018. Photograph: Abdul Majeed/AFP/Getty Images

is one of the world’s best-known figures, a and a global advocate for female education. She went from being a schoolgirl in the Swat valley of Pakistan to a global figure, all before the age of 20, and throughout she has maintained an almost preternatural poise and unwavering loyalty to her home country. Last week for the first time since she was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman six years ago. Yet her visit was marred by a grotesque coordinated campaign, where private school teachers announced an . Children were made to wear black

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