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What’s all the fuss about the Connecticut Mass Shooting?
Searching the web I have seen information about it everywhere. Why it seems we are so shocked about this event? Because 27 people died, from which 20 were children in a school ? But, has anyone ever thought that in Africa there are child soldiers? Has anyone ever thought that... Profile of a Trafficker
What is known about Traffickers? “Traffickers include those who recruit, transport, harbor, obtain and exploit victims, often using force, threats, lies, or other physical and psychological methods of control.” 1 I was interested in what information is known about ... Ending the use of child soldiers in the Philippines
Let's hope the using children as soldiers soon becomes a thing of the past. I find the practice, not just despicable, but for some reason it astounds me. Maybe looking at the kids in my life is the reason, while some may play "cowboys and indians" or shoot 'em... Ex-Child Soldiers in DRC Drawn Back Into Military Ranks
Youngsters struggling to adapt to civilian life feel they have little option but to return to fighting.By Erick Kenzo - International Justice - ICCACR Issue 288,8 Feb 11 A lack of community support and persistent discrimination is being blamed for the... 250,000 children exploited by armed forces across the world
Southern Sudan’s rebel groups are not the only forces in Africa’s largest nation to send children into battle, the UN’s expert on underage soldiers said, with the government and Darfur militias also known to use child fighters.The latest report on child soldiers by the...
created by snuffysmith | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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SILENT WARRIORS - Child Soldiers in Armed Conflict
With all the talk of the various conflicts and wars throughout the world, there is little said about the unspoken atrocities that plague children in these battle-struck regions where children, boys and... Pakistan 'Rescues' Child Soldiers
Pakistan military working in the Swat Valley have rescued child soldiers held by the Taliban. It appears that they were being groomed as child soldiers and as suicide bombers by the Taliban. " They have been brainwashed and trained as suicide bombers, but the nine who I...
created by Barbara McPherson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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361 views | 35 recommendations | 3 comments
Retraining Tiger cubs - Sri Lanka
" FAIRNESS cream; scented hair oil; talcum powder: these are things that female ex-combatants of the Tamil Tiger rebels, many forcibly recruited as children, hesitantly ask for when placed in rehabilitation.... Sri Lanka not to prosecute child LTTE soldiers: Rajapaksa
"Sri Lanka not to prosecute child LTTE soldiers: Rajapaksa Colombo (PTI): In a humanitarian gesture to Tamils, Sri Lanka has said that child soldiers recruited by the LTTE would not be prosecuted, and instead... Dark tales of Tamil ex-child soldiers
" At a camp situated on top of a hill overlooking scenic rubber and coconut plantations in Sri Lanka, more than 100 former Tamil Tiger child soldiers are undergoing a year-long rehabilitation course. Bala, who is... A way out for Sri Lanka’s child soldiers
" RANJENDRAN HAS the acne and somewhat awkward gait of many a 17-year-old schoolboy. He has already completed is O-Levels and is studying for his A-Level examinations, the local equivalent of the Leaving... Child soldiers fight LTTE Ghosts
"Kumudha absent-mindedly fiddles with her left forefinger. Then, looking embarrassed, she hurriedly tucks it into the foldsof her skirt. She often forgets that she has no forefinger. Only a stub. The finger was... Gitmo: Child Soldier Mohammad Al-Qurani Sent to Chad
Detainees are gradually being removed from Gitmo. Child soldier, Mohammad Al-Qurani, also knowns as al-Gharani has been repatriated to Chad. Al-Qurani was apprehended in Pakistan in 2001 when he was 14 years...
created by Barbara McPherson | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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234 views | 26 recommendations | 4 comments
Tamil Tigers’ child conscripts bid farewell to arms
" by Hannah Gardner, Foreign Correspondent AMBEPUSSA, SRI LANKA Suresh has a sweet face and gentle manner. His skinny body and the downy fuzz on his upper lip mark him out as boy who is still a couple of... Mia Bloom -- What the Tigers Taught Al-Qaeda
" By Mia Bloom Sunday, May 24, 2009 It took a pitched two-hour gun battle with Sri Lankan special forces. Then a rocket launched into his armor-plated ambulance. But last Monday, death finally came to Velupillai... Top Members Today
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