Watch a child soldier's song » That night ... His father became a rebel. His mother was killed. He says government soldiers raped his sister three times. Jal ended up in a United Nations refugee ...

Rebel forces also recruited child soldiers in their effort to oust the existing government. In northern Uganda, the abduction of children by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continued unabated ...

Sri Lankan government is criticised for supporting proxy armed groups fighting rebel Tamil Tigers who are said to use children - the report The Child Soldiers Global Report has rare good news ...

Born in Brazzaville in the Republic of Congo in 1978, Missamou was recruited by rebel forces when he was just 14. "I was taught to kill, I was taught to brutalize," the former child soldier turned ...

Associate Professor of Peace, Politics, and Conflict Studies, Babes Bolyai University The use of child soldiers is a profound human tragedy that continues to scar generations across the world.

had never been involved in a rebel group and had never engaged in the recruitment or use of child soldiers, the Justice ...