AFP
Friday, January 8th, 2010
KABUL — Children are the biggest victims of the
war in Afghanistan, with more than 1,050 people under 18 years old
killed last year alone, according to an Afghan human rights watchdog.
Taliban-linked militants caused around 64 percent of all violent
child deaths last year, the Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) said in a
report.
Children were also press-ganged, sexually exploited, deprived of
health and education, and illegally detained by all sides in a war that
is dragging into its ninth year since the US-led invasion toppled the
Taliban regime.
“At least three children were killed in war-related incidents
every day in 2009 and many others suffered in diverse but mostly
unreported ways,” ARM director Ajmal Samadi said.
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