International Organization: Terrorist Groups in Syria Recruit Children in Military Activities

LONDON, (ST) – The international “Save the Children” organization in charge of defending children’s rights revealed in a new report that the number of children being recruited by armed terrorist groups in Syria is continuously increasing.

The BBC quoted the londin-based organization as saying in its report titled “Childhood under Fire” that some children are being forced to be recruited in military activities and sometimes children under 18 are used by armed terrorist groups as human shields. The organization also stressed that recruiting children in military operations contradicts international law and it is an open violation of their rights.

The Organization pointed out that statistics by an observatory group uncovers that since the beginning of the crisis in Syria, 17 children linked to armed groups were killed and a big number was seriously wounded.

UN official Radica Kumar Asuami said last June that the “armed opposition is accused of using children as fighters and by doing this they violate international agreements which ban child recruitment.”

The armed terrorist groups in Syria contain mercenaries trained by Turkey and United States and financed by some Gulf countries. Turkey provides protection and security to the terrorists in the Syrian-Turkish borders area and paves the way for their infiltration into Syria to commit killing, assassination, bombing, kidnapping and torture crimes to destabilize Syria.

H. Mustafa