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3,021 child soldiers demobilised in Burundi

AngolaPress


March 14, 2007

Bujumbura, Burundi -- About 3,021 child soldiers who took part in Burundi's decade-long civil war have been demobilised and reintegrated into civilian life, an official source said here Tuesday.

However, the recruitment of underage children is still going on in Burundi, the UN secretary-general's special representative for children in armed conflicts, Radhika Coomaraswamy, disclosed at a news conference on the third day of her working visit to the country.

The UN diplomat urged the National Liberation Front (FNL) to end the recruitment and release all child soldiers still serving in the only rebel movement active in the country.

She further expressed concern over the fate of some 200 to 300 underage child soldiers still held in Burundi, calling for their immediate release.

On the whole, the UN representative revealed that over 830,000 war or HIV/AIDS orphans needed urgent social assistance in Burundi.



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