Photo: Children and Armed Conflict. IDP children in BossasoChildren Fighting Somalia’s Wars -- Daily Nation
Sixty per cent of soldiers involved in Somalia’s conflict are children, a UN official has said.
The secretary-general’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy, told the Sunday Nation that a majority of the children had been enlisted in militia groups fighting the Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
However, Dr Coomaraswamy could not establish the exact number of children involved.
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My Comment: Dr Coomaraswamy could not establish the exact number of children involved .... which puts his claim of 60% in question. But there is no question about one thing, children are used as soldiers in Somalia, continuing a cycle that shows no end. For more info on the plight of children in Somalia read here.