From The Guardian:Thousands of child refugees from Darfur, some as young as nine, are being abducted and sold to warring militias as child soldiers, a British human rights group reports today.
The organisation, Waging Peace, has filmed testimony in refugee camps in eastern Chad, describing how children, mostly boys between nine and 15, have been forcibly taken from their families by camp leaders, who are then trafficking them to militias.
Today's report singles out the Darfur rebel group fighting the Khartoum government, the Justice and Equality Movement, as the main offender. But it says a variety of groups, including the Chadian army and opposing rebels, are also involved.
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My Comment: The present wars in Africa are laying the groundwork for suffering to continue for the next few decades. Slavery has returned to the world. Where are our human rights organizations? Protests in our universities? Our mas media reporting on these atrocities? Our politicians, the U.N., The E.U., The African Organization of States ..... Where is everybody?
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