The United Nations for the first time named the military forces and rebel groups that are the most persistent violators of children in armed conflicts, identifying groups in Asia, Africa and Latin America which continue to recruit child soldiers and use them to wage wars.
The persistent violators include Abu Sayyaf, the New People’s Army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), three insurgent groups that are active in the Philippines; Myanmar’s national army, known as Tatmadaw Kyi, and the rebel Karenni Army and Karen National Liberation Army; The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN); in Congo, the national army (known as the FARDC) and the rebel Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Nationalist and Integrationalist Front (FNI), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and various militias that are known as the Mai-Mai; in Sudan, pro-Government militias in Darfur and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA); in Somalia, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG); the Afghan National Police; the rebel Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Somalia’s Hizbul Islam militia.
Please read full article : http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00397.htm: UN identifies most persistent users of child soldiers in armed conflicts
Child Soldiers - Victims or Assailants?
The answer is both. Their childhood is snatched away, separated from the love of their families, away from school, away from friends, turned into a killing machine. Brainwashed, at times drugs are freely distributed, under the influence alcohol, the mind confused reality distorted, threatened with loss of life, loss of his family unless he or she performs as ordered. Life becomes living hell and the child begins to not only fight in combat, but kill in ways that were unimaginable a few months earlier. Child Soldiers - are both Victim and Assailant.
The persistent violators include Abu Sayyaf, the New People’s Army and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), three insurgent groups that are active in the Philippines; Myanmar’s national army, known as Tatmadaw Kyi, and the rebel Karenni Army and Karen National Liberation Army; The Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the National Liberation Army (ELN); in Congo, the national army (known as the FARDC) and the rebel Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Nationalist and Integrationalist Front (FNI), the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) and various militias that are known as the Mai-Mai; in Sudan, pro-Government militias in Darfur and the southern-based Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA); in Somalia, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG); the Afghan National Police; the rebel Convention of Patriots for Justice and Peace in the Central African Republic (CAR) and Somalia’s Hizbul Islam militia.
Please read full article : http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1005/S00397.htm: UN identifies most persistent users of child soldiers in armed conflicts
Child Soldiers - Victims or Assailants?
The answer is both. Their childhood is snatched away, separated from the love of their families, away from school, away from friends, turned into a killing machine. Brainwashed, at times drugs are freely distributed, under the influence alcohol, the mind confused reality distorted, threatened with loss of life, loss of his family unless he or she performs as ordered. Life becomes living hell and the child begins to not only fight in combat, but kill in ways that were unimaginable a few months earlier. Child Soldiers - are both Victim and Assailant.
Quoted from http://kabiza.com/Childsoldiers.htm
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