"Little" Army of Somalia

Avila Salah Osman wanders through the devastated Mogadishu. It is similar to his twelve-year peers in tatters, with thin arms and legs and eyes that read craving attention and affection. However, both Avila and different. Characterized in that in his hand a loaded Kalashnikov rifle, and he served in the armed unit, which is sponsored by the United States. A loud shout of Avila stop truck driver who tried to pass through the checkpoint at which he serves. In Somalia, a human life is worth nothing, so the driver is not to tempt fate and stops at the request of a child with a gun. Radical Islamists are using children as fighters, but Avila escaped this fate, and is in the squad, which is subject to the transitional Somali government. According to reports from human rights organizations and official figures of the United Nations in the Somali army Kalashnikov rifle holding hundreds of children from the age of 9 years. In the world, in many hotspots kids are holding weapons, Somalia is one of the record for the number.

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