Innocence Lost the use of child soldiers

KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan - The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.

The video, which was obtained by AP Television News in the border city of Peshawar on Tuesday, appears authentic and is unprecedented in jihadist propaganda because of the youth of the executioner.

Although as stated in the article this a new tactic for Tailiban and/or Al Quaida, the use of children as soldiers is hardly new and has been going on in Africa since the early '90's at the very least. Children have been used as soldiers (really more execution squads) in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and now in Darfur.
What happens to these kids, what is being done, more at links.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070421/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_child_executioner

http://web.amnesty.org/pages/childsoldiers-index-eng

http://www.vachss.com/help_text/child_soldiers.html

of children as soldiers.

For the use of children as soldiers.