Malala Breaks Down On Seeing her Bloodied School Uniform in Oslo

By Staff Reporter - 12 Dec '14 08:33AM
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The sight of the bloodied uniform that she was wearing the day the Taliban shot her in October 2012, made Malala Yousafzai cry.

Malala, 17, and her fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2014, Kailaash Satyarthi, were at an exhibition Thursday, dedicated to them in Oslo when she broke down upon seeing her white and blue stained uniform. Satyarthi comforted her by saying "you are so brave."

Satyarthi, 60, hugged and kissed her on the head and repeatedly said , "You are so brave, you are so brave, " reports Norwegian news agency NTB. 

The uniform has been made part of the "Nobel Peace Prize exhibition 2014"  on Malala's wish. Her family had kept the uniform with them till now and this is the first time that the uniform  has been displayed in public.

Malala was shot in her head while on her way to school. She was taken for treatment to the United Kingdom.

Malala is the youngest person to receive the Nobel award and she has been honored for her brave and relentless fight for the right to education of girls in Afghanistan. The country has been overridden by the extremist Taliban, which has banned education of girls, and curbed all sorts of freedom of females.

Satyarthi has been honored for his fight against the exploitation of children. Both received the honor on Wednesday.

Talking about hearing that she had won the prestigious award she said she had gone about her day the normal ways, "The Nobel is not going to help me in my exam."

Satyarthi said that both of them have to take the fight a step further and work for peace in the Indian sub-continent and see that the future generation stays in peace.

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