Consign Wartime Attacks on Schools to History

Expand School Number 3 in Krasnohorivka, eastern Ukraine. © Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch Spain’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell is scheduled to open an international conference tomorrow on protecting schools during wartime on the island of Mallorca, Spain. The occasion has me thinking about two schools at almost opposite ends of Europe, united by a common fate, yet separated by almost 80 years: Barcelona’s “School of the Sea” and “School Number 3” in Krasnohorivka, Ukraine. School Number 3 sits in eastern Ukraine, almost on the front line dividing government-controlled territory and the…

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