Satyarthi appeals to terrorist groups to spare children

December 18, 2014 22:08

Terming the militant attack on a Peshawar school as an 'act of sin', Nobel Peace prize winner Kailash Satyarthi today appealed to the terrorist groups to spare children and asked the global community to work unitedly to defeat terrorism.

The child rights crusader who received the Nobel Peace Prize over a week back with Pakistani teenager Malala Yousafzai termed the attack in Peshawar as one of the darkest days of humanity.

"My heart is in Peshawar where the incident happened, even though I am not physically present there. It is the most tragic event which has occurred in history of the world.

"When I learnt about what was happening in Pakistan, my first reaction was that those terrorists should leave those 400 kids of mine and take me as a hostage instead. But by then we learnt that over 100 children had already been killed by then," he said.

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