Child soldiers increasingly recruited in Syria

Mar 14, 2013 at 12:04 pm

http://www.childrensrightsinstitute.org/2013/03/child-soldiers-increasingly-recruited-in-syria

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Children are being increasingly recruited on the frontline in Syria's war, with both sides to the conflict using boys as soldiers and even human shields, a British charity said on Wednesday.

Save the Children said in a report marking two years of violence in Syria that two million children were innocent victims of the bloody conflict that the United Nations says has cost at least 70,000 lives.

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