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Plight of child soldiers

    NAIROBI

    Some 6,000 children are in military service in government-controlled territory, and the use of children in warfare is even more frequent in the case of the RCD, Garreton said in his report. There has been no reduction in the number of child soldiers in areas controlled by the RCD or the MLC, he added. “The end of the recruitment of children cannot be delayed,” he said. The initiative of the DRC government to convene a pan-African conference in November on the demobilisation of child soldiers should be supported, Garreton recommended.

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