Remembering the Peshawar School Massacre

Teachers remember the day when armed men attacked a school in Peshawar, killing 150 people.

According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal, more than 20,000 civilians have been killed in attacks by armed groups in Pakistan between 2003 and 2015.

And the December 16 attack on the school in Peshawar wasn't the first to target schoolchildren. According to a report last year from the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, at least 838 schools in Pakistan were targeted between 2009 and 2012.

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But the massacre at the Army Public School was by far the deadliest attack by an armed group in the country's history and it sent shockwaves through Pakistan and beyond.

Schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa were closed for nearly a month and, when they reopened, some anxious parents debated whether or not to send their children back.

"These kids are traumatised and afraid this could happen again," says Tahir Aneez Malik, who lost his 14-year-old-son, Hammad, in the massacre.

Hammad was shot twice, Tahir explains. "They [the killers] are animals, wild animals. They are the enemies of this country. They call themselves Muslims but they kill innocent people," he says.