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...
opinion by alexunder12 | 22 wks ago | updated 22 wks ago 337 views | 1 recommendation | 0 comments
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 ...
opinion by bjtindle | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 382 views | 6 recommendations | 1 comment
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...
created by bjtindle | 2 years ago 88 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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...
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...
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...
opinion by aurealeus | 3 years ago | updated 1 year ago 1944 views | 33 recommendations | 4 comments
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 361 views | 35 recommendations | 3 comments
" 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....
created by lalith | 3 years ago 273 views | 10 recommendations | 4 comments
"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...
created by lalith | 3 years ago 489 views | 8 recommendations | 0 comments
" 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...
created by lalith | 3 years ago 236 views | 8 recommendations | 0 comments
" 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...
created by lalith | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 236 views | 9 recommendations | 1 comment
"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...
created by lalith | 3 years ago 173 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
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 234 views | 26 recommendations | 4 comments
" 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...
created by lalith | 3 years ago 351 views | 20 recommendations | 2 comments
" 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...
created by lalith | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 368 views | 16 recommendations | 9 comments