Think Again: Child Soldiers

What human rights activists never tell you about young killers.

BY SCOTT GATES, SIMON REICH | MAY 22, 2009

Child Soldiering Is a Human Rights Issue.

MUSTAFA ABDI/AFP/Getty Images Exploited and dangerous: Child soldiers are more than just a moral hazard.

It's much more than that. It is also a geostrategic and development issue. Child soldiers are usually depicted as victims. That's accurate: Exploited, torn from their families, deprived of their education, and forced into battle, child soldiers are truly casualties of war.

But they're also assailants. Child...

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