Posted: Oct 23, 2013 4:33 pm
Panderos wrote: Yes, this is all true, I just hadn't really thought about it like that until that interview. Being a teenage girl who survives a bullet to the head from the taliban is enough for the media to deify someone and cynically I assumed that's all that had really happened. I wasn't really aware of what it was like where she was living or how outspoken she had been / is.
I believe it is because she was so articulate and outspoken that she became a target.