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Iraqi Roma village school reopens 14 years after destruction

Carrying her bag on the way home from class, Malak is glowing: the 10-year-old girl has just finished her first semester of school in her Iraqi Roma village. In 2004, armed extremists attacked the village of Al Zuhour in Iraq's Diwaniya province, 200 kilometres south of Baghdad, destroying the only school for the marginalised Roma community. […]

AFP reports:

Carrying her bag on the way home from class, Malak is glowing: the 10-year-old girl has just finished her first semester of school in her Iraqi Roma village.

In 2004, armed extremists attacked the village of Al Zuhour in Iraq's Diwaniya province, 200 kilometres south of Baghdad, destroying the only school for the marginalised Roma community.

"On television, I would see other children with school bags and they looked happy," Malak said. "I was a bit jealous because our school was destroyed years ago."