Children In War

The Taliban's War On Children

At least 50 battlefield reports filed by U.S. Marine officers since March 2010 list cases of children used in combat by the Taliban. One report describes an incident in the city of Marjah last year: the Taliban "placed five children shoulder to shoulder on [the roadway] to cover their movements. Once the children were placed, the Taliban element mounted their motorcycles and escaped."   But the Taliban's horrific exploitation of children is not limited to combat zones. According to the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict, a non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C., in order to catch patrolling army and policemen off-guard, the Taliban are fitting children with explosive vests and sending them up to uniformed men standing at checkpoints or sitting in police vehicles. By using this form you agree to the following: All comments will be reviewed before posting. Be aware - not all submissions will be posted. VOA has the right to use your comments worldwide in any VOA produced media.

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The women wait in food lines it is hot and humiliating but their government is trying to recover from years of an evil administration at least that is what they were told. And when your children are hungry you take the free food even if you don't believe the political story that goes with it. The current administration promised them better times because they were on their side and the old administration wasn't, they were for these people the previous administration wasn't.

They are happy their electricity is on and that their children can go to school and they understand that the government has suffered many shocks and set backs what with all the political factions fighting each other and threatening to tear the country asunder in the search of establishing a democracy. But can't they help them feed their children? They understand that in war sometimes we have to do without for the sake of the country at least that's what they're told, but the children? Why must the children carry that burden? Before the Iraq war it was said ten years of sanctions killed almost a million Iraqi children.

Now there aren't any sanctions on these children no reason other than gross negligence that these children go hungry and their mothers do with out. Their fathers many of whom have been ordered by the government to leave their homes and can only suffer from a distance. It's not that their fathers wouldn't do more if they could but now they have no choice. Many chose this life style never realizing that their families would be forced to pay for their poor decision making.

But now they find themselves confined, their children growing up without them while they fight for their lives in a living hell. Their wives and girlfriends are left to pick up the pieces trying to pay the bills and feed the children in a society that cares too little and a government that doesn't care at all. If you could eat slogans and promises they would all be fat and happy, but slogans don't soothe a gnawing stomach and promises won't quiet a hungry child.

But they are such a religious society you would think they would be buried in donations of food for the hungry children. After all they make such a show of it, the media is full of stories about their religious fanaticism. The new administration promised not to forget their religious roots. To the credit of their religious people they are trying to help but there are too many in need and not enough help to go around so they must ration the day old bread and damaged food items they pass out to the war refugees.

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