According to Somali human rights groups and United Nations officials, the Somali Transitional Federal Government, which relies on Western aid to survive, is fielding hundreds of children on front lines, some as young as nine, in their fight against Islamic insurgents. Child soldiers are deployed across the globe, but UN sources maintain that the Somali government is among the “most persistent violators” of children’s rights, sending them into war and putting the government on a list with notorious rebel groups such as the Lord’s Resistance Army. Ed Ou has spent time in Mogadishu, looking into the lives of children who have grown up knowing nothing but war.
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