Burundi: Child soldiers - the challenge of demobilisation

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Burundi: Child soldiers – the challenge of demobilisation

Amnesty International, 2004

Military leaders have fuelled Burundi`s 10 year armed conflict by recruiting and abducting children, destroying their childhood and their future. Children, including children under the age of 15, have been cynically used as a cheap and expendable tool of war.

http://www.refworld.org/docid/42ae98240.html

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Updated April 1, 2004.