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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAfghanistan Teenagers Detained By U.S. Military
NEW YORK -- The U.S. military has detained more than 200 Afghan teenagers who were captured in the war for about a year at a time at a military prison next to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan, the United States has told the United Nations.
The U.S. State Department characterized the detainees held since 2008 as "enemy combatants" in a report sent every four years to the United Nations in Geneva updating U.S. compliance with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
The U.S. military had held them "to prevent a combatant from returning to the battlefield," the report said.
A few are still confined at the Detention Facility in Parwan, which will be turned over to the Afghan government, it said. "Many of them have been released or transferred to the Afghan government," said the report, distributed this week. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/09/afghanistan-teenagers-detained_n_2267248.html
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Afghanistan Teenagers Detained By U.S. Military (Original Post)
marmar
Dec 2012
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PDJane
(10,103 posts)1. Great way to radicalize the next generation, too.
Marinedem
(373 posts)2. Can't tell you how many times I caught 16-18 year old kids emplacing IEDS/moving materials to build
I'd say it's a fair bet they are already pretty "Radicalized" at that point.
PDJane
(10,103 posts)3. I can't say I blame them..........
Years and years of on-and-off war will do that to even young people. I was actually speaking of their children....who will be radicalized by contact.