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Immigration

Nov. 29, 2011

Child soldiers: persecutors or persecuted?

U.S. asylum law should accommodate, not hinder, former child soldiers seeking our protection. By Leanne Heine


By Leanne Heine


The phrase "child soldier" invokes horrendous pictures in most minds: young boys abducted, brainwashed, and drugged to fight and kill their own neighbors; girls kidnapped and forced to be sex slaves, wives, or maids. In 2005, a global estimate reported that around 300,000 children in 30 plus countries were involved in armed conflicts; in 2009 the United Nations listed over 51 groups that used child soldiers in armed conflict during that...

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