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Easy Prey: Child Soldiers in Liberia (Human Rights Watch Report, September 8, 1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The widespread use of child soldiers has ensured that many thousands of children in Liberia have suffered exceptional cruelties during the war; many child soldiers have been killed or wounded, or have witnessed terrible atrocities in a period in which thousands of other children, too,have died. |
 | | Child soldiers report being treated cruelly by the factions to which they belonged; they have been beaten, flogged, and subjected to a form a torture called tabay -- in which a person's elbows are tied together behind his back, causing severe pain and often leading to nerve damage in the arms. |
 | | Ambassador Twaddell said that he had raised the issue of child soldiers with representatives of both the NPFL and ULIMO, telling them both that the use of children as fighters was "disgusting and unjustifiable." He said that he had also raised human rights violations with the AFL. |
| www.hrw.org /reports/1994/liberia2 (12043 words) |