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Article: BURMA-REPORT: RECRUITERS FORCE CHILD SOLDIERS TO SERVE JUNTA
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- Inter Press Service English News Wire
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
11-01-2007
By Abra Pollock
WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2007 (IPS/GIN) -- Burma's military
government will face another round of international scrutiny next
week when a working group from the U.N. Security Council meets to
consider evidence in connection with allegations that the junta is
recruiting child soldiers.
"The brutality of Burma's military government goes beyond its
violent crackdown on peaceful protestors," said Jo Becker, a
children's rights advocate for Human Rights Watch and the author
of a report on child soldiers released Wednesday. "Military
recruiters are literally buying and selling children to fill the
ranks of the Burmese armed forces."
The ...
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