Children still drawn into war in Sudan: UN

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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Children are still being abducted, killed, raped and pressed into warfare as soldiers by armed groups in Sudan -- including the country's army -- despite peace deals in the south and west, the United Nations reported on Tuesday.

Other groups abducting and recruiting children for war in the country's western Darfur region included the government-backed Janjaweed militias and the rebel Sudan Liberation Army, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in the report to the Security Council.

In southern Sudan, the report accuses the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army, or SPLA -- now the region's official army -- of killing and recruiting children as soldiers, along with the national army -- the Sudanese Armed Forces.

The report blames the Sudanese Armed Forces and Janjaweed militias for sexual violence against children in Darfur.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/wl_nm/sudan_darfur_children_dc

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

1. So many weapons

So many children. Stop arms dealers now!

[PointAndLaugh]

2. No mention of Lord's Resistance Army?

Under the leadership of Joseph Kony, a war criminal wanted by the International Criminal Court in Hague, whose Lord's Resistance Army abducted nearly 30,000 children since 1987 from Uganda, Sudan and Congo? Oh, I see, he's a loony fundamentalist Christian, therefore in the eyes of western/Christian press, he does not exist.