The whole was then denied by our authorities and the local authorities, the Taliban have sought to yield a crude image of rebellion of a people, by the hand of a child.
This is a true story, but as an opportunity to remember and analyze what happens in the theaters of war where children are used in conflicts, has changed the nature of war, has now become predominantly ethnic, religious and nationalist.
The "warlords" who fight do not care about the Geneva Conventions and even children often consider as enemies.
It is estimated that in the world are at least 300,000 children under the age of 18 engaged in hostilities. The majority of child soldiers are between 15 and 18 years. Many, however, are recruited at age 10 or earlier, the children are the most vulnerable in fact, sexual violence is often used as a deliberate weapon of war.
THE INFORMATION REGULARLY most sensational and IGNORE CONCERN, THE SILENT Israeli - Palestinian conflict
"The noble art of war" on the children become school education, television and civil. The teenagers in Gaza must learn in school as a subject of study, the use of Kalashnikovs and also to shoulder missiles and anti-tank RPG then we see rain on Israeli cities, train them professors appointed by the ministry of the interior, but Israel is not from less than in the dossier compiled by the Council for Human Rights of the United Nations published a few days ago, a fact is expressed "deep concern about the mistreatment and torture of Palestinian children arrested, prosecuted and detained by the police and the Israeli military." The state of Netanyahu is guilty of horrible crimes, abuses of children with torture, isolation prison, death threats and sexual violence, children who, in most cases, have not yet even reached adolescence.
This is one of the probable list of the countries involved in the conflict:
Human Rights Watch has documented the recruitment and use of children as soldiers. Today, child soldiers are fighting in at least 14 countries:
Afghanistan - insurgent groups, including the Taliban and other armed groups, use children as combatants, even in suicide attacks. The UN also reports the recruitment of children by the Afghan National Police.
Burma - Thousands of children serve in the national army of Burma, with children 11 forcibly recruited off the streets and sent into combat operations. The children also serve with some of the ethnic groups of armed opposition.
Central African Republic - Hundreds of children, some as young as 12 years old, enrolled with various rebel groups. The Lord's Resistance Army, kidnaps children in the south-east of the country.
Chad - Thousands of children have served in both factions both government and rebel forces. In 2011, the government signed an action plan to end the use and recruitment of child soldiers has declined dramatically.
Colombia - Thousands of children-boys and girls-are used to irregular armed groups of Colombia.La most serve to the guerrillas of the FARC, and the UC-ELN guerrillas.
Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) - Children are employed by the government in the armed forces and factions of the rebel forces. At the height of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UN estimates that more than 30,000 boys and girls were fighting with various parties in the conflict. Most have now been released demobilized the military, but the active recruitment continues in the eastern part of the country.The, the Lord's Resistance Army abducts children also in the north-east of the Congo, using both boys and girls the first as combatants, and girls as sex slaves.
India - Maoist "Naxalite rebels" children recruited as soldiers in Chhattisgarh. The Maoists INDUCT use children of 12 years, six of youth clubs in armed squads receiving training in the use of weapons involved in armed clashes with government security forces.
Iraq - Al-Qaeda recruits children to spy, explore, to transport military supplies, explosive devices, and actively participate in attacks against security forces and civilians, including suicide attacks.
Philippines - Children are recruited by rebel forces, including the New People's Army, Abu Sayyaf and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). The Philippine army justifies the custody of children are rebellious "child warriors." but reserving their treatment by prisoners.
Somalia - The Islamist armed group al-Shabaab recruits by force children of 10 years, often subtracts them from their homes or schools. Some are forced to become suicide bombers. Children are also used in the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia (TFG).
South Sudan - The government of South Sudan has promised to end its use of child soldiers, but they continued to recruit and did not demobilize all children from its forces.
Sudan - In Darfur, more than a dozen armed forces and groups using child soldiers, including the Sudanese Armed Forces, pro-government militias and rebel factions of the Sudan Liberation Army.
Thailand - separatist rebels - Pejuang Kemerdekaan Patani (Patani Freedom Fighters) - have recruited hundreds of ethnic Malay Muslim children as messengers, couriers, scouts, and in some cases, fighters in the insurgency in the border provinces of southern Thailand. The National Revolutionary Front-Coordinate (BRN-C) has systematically recruited children and used them to support armed attacks.
Yemen - Government forces have recruited children 14 years before the Arab Spring, the government used children in its armed forces to fight Huthi rebels in the north.
Result, millions of children have been seriously injured or have been rendered permanently disabled, have endured sexual violence, psychological trauma, hunger and disease. About 20 million children have been torn from their homes and communities of origin because of the war.
Landmines are responsible for 15,000-20,000 deaths a year, and about one fifth of them are children. Children are particularly at risk of being injured or killed by landmines, because of their small size, the unusual shape and colors make them look like toys.
The toys unfortunately the only ones who have ever seen.
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