Channel 4 News
| Mar 26, 2013
Congolese General Bosco Ntaganda, nicknamed "Terminator," has made his first appearance before the International Criminal Court to face war crimes charges, as Jonathan Miller reports.
Euronews
| Mar 19, 2013
Washington says a war crimes suspect from the Democratic Republic of Congo has handed himself over to the US embassy in Kigali. Officials say General Bosco Ntaganda, who goes by the nickname "The Terminator", has asked to be transferred to the jur...
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Mosaic
| Jan 25, 2013
Press TV investigates the reasons behind the increasing number of child soldiers in Yemen, since the 2011 political crisis. Due to poverty and political tensions, children have become a target for both government and opposition forces.
ABC News (Australia)
| Nov 25, 2012
Abducted into Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, boy soldier Julius Achon managed to escape after a year then racked up miles running in competitive races to snag a scholarship to a US university, and qualify for the Olympics. But he never forgot th...
Channel 4 News
| Nov 21, 2012
A report from the United Nations links Rwanda's defence minister James Kabarebe with the M23 rebel group which has been taking over towns and cities in the mineral-rich east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Jonathan Rugman reports.
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Journeyman Pictures
| Jun 3, 2010
WARNING: Graphic Content. Vice travels to West Africa to rummage through the messy remains of a country ravaged by 14 years of civil war. Despite the United Nation's eventual intervention, most of Liberia's young people continue to live in abject ...
KTN Kenya
| May 30, 2012
Former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for war crimes against humanity. Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the dark era of civil war that rocked neighbouring country ...
France 24
| May 30, 2012
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor has been sentenced by a special United Nations court to 50 years in prison following his landmark conviction for war crimes committed in Sierra Leone during the country's 1991-2001 civil war.
Al Jazeera English
| May 25, 2012
Conflict has once again broken out in the eastern region of the DR Congo. Government troops, dissident groups and militia are engaged in a fierce battle, causing thousands of refugees to flee their homes and villages. Will this end in yet another ...
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...Hundreds of thousands of children are used as soldiers in armed conflicts around the world. Many children are abducted and beaten into submissio...
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...in Central African Republic were with the myriad of armed groups destabilizing the country's north. Child soldiers were used in some of the heav...
The military use of children takes three distinct forms: children can take direct part in hostilities, or they can be used in support roles such as porters, spies, messengers, look outs; or they can be used for political advantage either as human shields or in propaganda.
Throughout history and in many cultures, children have been extensively involved in military campaigns even when such practices were against cultural morals. Since the 1970s, a number of international conventions have come into effect that try to limit the participation of children in armed conflicts, nevertheless the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers reports that the use of children in military forces, and the active participation of children in armed conflicts is widespread.
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