Many children have died and countless more have been injured, orphaned, or displaced from their homes over the course of this year's Arab uprisings. But the Arab Spring's youngest are not only victims -- leading chants in Cairo's Tahrir Square to joining up with Libya's rebel fighters to camping out in Pearl Square in Bahrain to being jailed for writing the graffiti that inspired Syria to rise up, the children of the Arab Spring are proving that the future belongs to them.
In Yemen, children have been at the forefront of protests -- UNICEF counts at least 19 who have been killed by both snipers and explosions over the course of the protests that have gripped the nation since early February -- an estimated 20 percent of the total casualties. Above, a young Yemeni boy wears a headband that says in Arabic "I'm the next martyr" during an anti-government protest in the capital Sanaa on March 27.
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CONCINNVS
3:11 AM ET
April 1, 2011
Anti-tank gun
The p.13 kid's weapon is not a T-12, which is a 100mm gun weighing 6000#. It appears to be just a toy AK.
SEBASTIANA
7:48 AM ET
April 1, 2011
error in caption on photo #13
$550 million is the correct figure, not $550 billion.
P.J. AROON
9:42 AM ET
April 1, 2011
Corrected
Thanks for pointing out the error. We have corrected it.
--FP copy chief
MASINI
10:37 AM ET
April 3, 2011
Although we believe that
Although we believe that children prefer to spread this message?
Do you really think that children would prefer to play or stay with their parents?
Do you really think that children do not need care and education?
Do you really think they are heroes?
I think they are safe and some victims may not wish to do so. Some may be used by different people to do these things. I think they are manipulated, and they should not be there.autov it
GVERDIER
1:58 PM ET
April 5, 2011
Children of the Revolution
There is no such language as "Eritrean" so I doubt that the child born on his way to Italy has an "Eritrean" name per se. The name is either translated from Tigrinya, which is the predominant language spoken by Eritreans or Amharic, the predominant language spoken by Ethiopians There are also many other indigenous languages spoken by both Ethiopians and Eritreans.
ASAD KHAN
12:35 AM ET
April 7, 2011
Revolution children
Rouseau,Kant,Hegal are too advanced for school boys to understand.i studied them as a student of political science at college when i was above the age of eighteen years which is the majority age under the law.such a person is allowed to enter into a contract.Are they really children.
KUMHO
2:53 AM ET
April 12, 2011
Kumho
Thanks forParça Kontör pointing out the error
JONRICKSPAN
2:56 PM ET
April 17, 2011
Masini
Although we believe that children prefer to spread this message?
Do you really think that children would prefer to play or stay with their parents?
Do you really think that children do not need care and education?
Do you really think they are heroes?
I think they are safe and some victims may not wish to do so. Some may be used by different people to do these things. I think they are manipulated, and they should not be there. cna training