Sentences with phrase «armed child soldiers»

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There are an estimated 300,000 child soldiers in the rogue military and other armed groups of the world.

It suggests going in as heavily armed as possible, since child soldiers are often more inclined to tackle lightly armed units.

The Lord's Resistance Army, a cult guerrilla army engaged in an armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, has been accused of using child soldiers and committing numerous crimes against humanity; including massacres, abductions, mutilation, torture, rape, porters and sex slaves.

The century ended with about 21 million refugees around the globe, including about 6 million internally displaced people and more than 300,000 child soldiers (under the age of 18), girls as well as boys, engaged in armed conflicts.

It's long been known that Somali rebels will kidnap children and force them to fight, but apparently the government — which is armed and supported by foreign governments, including the United States — is using child soldiers too.

Militaries that use child soldiers or [use children for] training or supportfor peacekeeping operations and so on and so forth... In many cases, we're not actually talking about arms sales, it may just be training and other stuff.»

Within the report each year is a list of countries the State Department has identified «as having governmental armed forces or government - supported armed groups that recruit and use child soldiers.»

Worse, they compel children to kill one another and their own families, fighting as «soldiers» in an armed force deliberately composed of children.

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The new child soldiers protocol establishes 18 as the minimum age for direct participation in hostilities, for compulsory recruitment, and for any recruitment or use in hostilities by non-governmental armed groups (formerly the age cutoff was 15).

The year before, in Sierra Leone, a squad from the Royal Irish Regiment was taken prisoner by a group consisting mostly of armed children called the West Side Boys, as the British soldiers were hesitant to open fire.