“As from June 1996, over 1,700 children accused of genocide were being detained in dreadful conditions,” he said. The ministry of justice and UNICEF had provided legal assistance for the 1,191 children of sufficient age to have been charged with criminal responsibility for genocide but, several years later, no special procedures have yet been devised to process these youths, he said. Those too young to be charged and tried had yet to receive documentation and be reunited with their families, he told the Security Council. Children who were under the age of criminal responsibility must benefit from appropriate measures “to promote physical and psychological recovery and social reintegration,” Annan said.
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