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Ranks of child soldiers swell again in Congo: Fresh fighting in the east has ended a three-year lull in using child fighters

Date: September 19, 2007

Author: Scott Baldauf

QUOTE: But a recent bout of fighting – a tangled conflict of local ethnic militias, Rwandan rebels, and the Congolese Army – is putting that progress at risk. Untold hundreds and even thousands of young boys and girls are being forced to rejoin the fight, or to fight for the first time in a war that few of them understand.

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• First Church of Christ, Scientist The
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

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• Family & Friends & Interpersonal
  • Domestic Abuse / Children's Rights / Foster Care & Guardianship

• Government & Politics / History
  • Government (General)
    • International Relations/Diplomacy
      • War/Military
        • Military Organizations

• Africa
  • Central Africa
    • Congo, Democratic Republic of [DROC/ex-Zaire/ex-Kinshasa/ex-Leopoldville/ex-Belgian Congo]
    • Rwanda

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