My Gun Was as Tall as Me: Child Soldiers in Burma - Softcover

Human Rights Watch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1564322793 ISBN 13: 9781564322791

Verlag: Human Rights Watch, 2002

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Burma is believed to have more child soldiers than any other country in the world. The overwhelming majority of Burma's child soldiers are found in Burma's national army, the Tatmadaw Kyi, which forcibly recruits children as young as eleven. These children are subject to beatings and systematic humiliation during training. Once deployed, they must engage in combat, participate in human rights abuses against civilians, and are frequently beaten and abused by their commanders and cheated of their wages. Refused contact with their families and facing severe reprisals if they try to escape, these children endure a harsh and isolated existence. Children are also present in Burma's myriad opposition groups, although in far smaller numbers. Some children join opposition groups to avenge past abuses by Burmese forces against members of their families or community, while others are forcibly conscripted.

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• Verlag: Human Rights Watch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1564322793
• ISBN 13: 9781564322791
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 213