As long as wars have been waged, children have been players -- as soldiers, bystanders, even as human shields. The Libyan battle to remove Col. Muammar al-Qaddafi has been no different. In the wake of the fighting reports emerged of children were the target of sniper attacks and being used by Qaddafi forces to protect military equipment and disrupt NATO attacks. Many were traumatized, others left orphaned. As Libya recovers from a six months of revolution and war that claimed 30,000 lives, perhaps the greatest challenge lies ahead for Libya's youth.
Above, a child holds up a bullet at the Rashid Street market in the center of Tripoli on Aug. 29.
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MAKOSA
1:08 PM ET
September 19, 2011
First people tasting freedom
Freedom is uneasy at arabic world under dictatorism and these people so lucky to see and live it. Democracy is more humanitarian managment system.
Also picture is nice and will share at my facebook. wm
SAMMUEL7
2:14 PM ET
September 29, 2011
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CONTATORELAXAMENTO
7:42 PM ET
September 19, 2011
First People
Democracy is more humanitarian managment system....PEACE !!!
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UNIZIK
2:31 PM ET
September 20, 2011
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it will take time to get those children back to school but with the help of the international society, it will be done
ORMONDOTVOS
6:47 PM ET
September 20, 2011
When will Israel learn G-d's not a Realtor?
Maybe the aspect of Kaiser's Germany pre-WWI that resisted the so-called culture was the same element that resists the elitist cultural types that the Tea Party.
Maybe always being the intellectuals in a society means you'll always be blamed when you can't handle governance.
Elites get blamed, Christ-killers or not.
I'm an atheist, so the Middle East is just a loony bin for religious nuts to me...
MARCUS_HOLCOM
5:06 AM ET
September 21, 2011
Libya's Revolution!!!
Finally last week, a group of fighters following Libya's new rulers drove through. They negotiated with local elders to lower the green flags of Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Then they headed off for battle further south, leaving a contingent of local supporters out-gunned and out-numbered by Schwerif's largely pro-Gadhafi residents.
On a recent afternoon, rockets screeched wildly overhead, thudding into the dirt randomly around the town of 3,200 after regime loyalists set fire to an ammunition dump to keep it out of the revolutionaries' hands. Like other terrified residents, Ali Abdullah, now head of the local revolutionary council, hid in his home with the cooking-off munitions whizzing by outside, They can also make use of Affiliate Programs to get benefits for their social awareness programs.
He has had no contact with the new leadership in Tripoli and, with electricity and telephones out, isn't even sure how to reach them. "We understand the idea of the revolution, so we're trying to carry it out here by ourselves," he said.
PRBR
9:22 AM ET
September 29, 2011
Thanks
Thank you for showing the true face of terror.
Amazing photographs and congratulations to the author.
Democracy is more humanitarian managment system....PEACE !!!
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YARINSIZ
7:00 PM ET
October 14, 2011
Maybe the aspect of Kaiser's
Maybe the aspect of Kaiser's Germany pre-WWI that resisted the so-called culture was the same element that resists the elitist cultural types that the Tea Party. seslichat Maybe always being the intellectuals in a society means you'll always be blamed when you can't handle governance.
CORTES
3:32 PM ET
October 15, 2011
Sometimes pictures tell a better story than mundane words
Sometimes pictures tell a better story than mundane words. This is definitely the case here.
ONEN
7:48 PM ET
October 15, 2011
Children Always The Victims
Wars have always been hardest on children who often lose their childhood and get scared for life. Memories don't go away easily and they affect all those affected throughout their lives and even those of their children.
I wish there is a better way to solve conflicts. Fast 50
CHRISBIKER
11:27 AM ET
October 16, 2011
Finally last week,
Finally last week, a group of fighters following Libya's new rulers drove through. They negotiated exercise bike review with local elders to lower the green flags of Moammar Gadhafi's regime. Then they headed off for battle further south, leaving a contingent of local supporters out-gunned and out-numbered by Schwerif's largely pro-Gadhafi residents.