Third of Yemen fighters are children: Unicef

[Sally]

So many young children being used as fighters when they should be in school.

Third of Yemen fighters are children: Unicef

April 10, 2015



GENEVA: Children make up a third of fighters in the armed groups in conflict-wracked Yemen, a UN official said on Thursday, also warning that malnutrition levels in the country were set to explode.

“We are seeing children in battle, at check-points and unfortunately among (those) killed and injured,” Julien Harneis, Unicef’s representative in Yemen, told reporters during a stop in Geneva.

Staff of the United Nations children’s agency and its partners had estimated that around 30 per cent of fighters in the armed groups were minors, he said.

In Yemen’s tribal culture, it is common for boys to take up arms at a young age — something that is having dire consequences amid the spiralling conflict.

“You can say that up to a third of fighters in the armed groups in Yemen are children,” Harneis said.

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[pismoe]

whats a CHILD , here in the west I guess that a child is an adult at 18 or 21 or 26 in mrobama world of obamacare . Think that its a modern and mostly western point of view . He11 even here in the west in the USA boys were considered young MEN at 14-15 and were eligible to join the military at 17 or 18 . I knew an old guy , passed away 30 years ago , he went into the Royal Navy at 12 to be an apprentice high pressure boiler mechanic on a Queens battleship , he was a Welshman . Any way , I'm not surprised that young men that the west calls children are fighting in the middle east , yemen , Syria , Iraq . How old was the younger brother that did the bombing in Boston . Haven't looked at the link but will check it out Sally !!

 

[Mr. H.]

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

[aris2chat]

So many young children being used as fighters when they should be in school.

Third of Yemen fighters are children: Unicef

April 10, 2015



GENEVA: Children make up a third of fighters in the armed groups in conflict-wracked Yemen, a UN official said on Thursday, also warning that malnutrition levels in the country were set to explode.

“We are seeing children in battle, at check-points and unfortunately among (those) killed and injured,” Julien Harneis, Unicef’s representative in Yemen, told reporters during a stop in Geneva.

Staff of the United Nations children’s agency and its partners had estimated that around 30 per cent of fighters in the armed groups were minors, he said.

In Yemen’s tribal culture, it is common for boys to take up arms at a young age — something that is having dire consequences amid the spiralling conflict.

“You can say that up to a third of fighters in the armed groups in Yemen are children,” Harneis said.

Continue reading at:

gulftoday.ae Third of Yemen fighters are children Unicef

sadly to be expected