UN Envoy Warns Of Risk To Syrian Children -- Al Jazeera
Leila Zerrougui warns that conflict, now in its third year, will force children to be exposed to radicalisation.
A UN envoy has warned that Syria's devastating conflict, now in its third year, will force a generation of children to grow up illiterate and filled with hate.
Leila Zerrougui, the special representative for children and armed conflict, says both sides of the Syrian conflict continue to commit grave violations against children.
She says scores of children have been killed, injured, detained, and forced to witness or to commit atrocities as President Bashar Al-Assad's troops battle opposition fighters trying to oust his regime.
Zerrougui also said on Thursday that thousands of schools have been destroyed.
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Update #1: Syrian children will grow up illiterate, full of hate because of civil war, UN envoy warns -- Washington Post/AP
Update #2: Syria's ravaged children: War misery told by the statistics -- L.A. Times
My Comment: All wars end one day .... but the legacy of hate and the need for revenge is going to be a fixture of Syria for a very long time.
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