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Article: BURMA-REPORT: RECRUITMENT OF CHILD SOLDIERS HAS RISEN SHARPLY.
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- Interpress Service
- Article date:
- March 18, 2008
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By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Thailand, Mar. 18, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The International Labor Organization office in Burma began receiving many more complaints last September about children being forced to join the Burmese army, according to a new report.
The International Labor Organization (ILO) report made a pointed reference to the shift noticed since September 2007, the month when the Burmese junta launched a brutal crackdown on peaceful street protests led by thousands of Buddhist monks chanting a prayer for loving kindness.
Prior to that month, the majority of complaints received about forced labor "concerned public works under local ...