UN says 1000s of children killed in SyriaThe United Nations says that thousands of Syrian children have been killed in over two years of the foreign-sponsored militancy in the country.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in a report on Wednesday that the unrest in Syria was taking an “unacceptable and unbearable” toll on Syrian children.
The office of Leila Zerrougui, the UN chief’s special representative on children in conflict, said it had received “verified reports that Syrian children are killed or injured in indiscriminate bombings, shot by snipers, used as human shields or victims of terror tactics.”
Thousands of Syrian children have also witnessed family members being killed or injured, the report added.
Boys as young as 10 years of age are being used by the Takfiri militants as combatants and porters, the report stated.
It also highlighted the growing number of reports that the terrorist Free Syrian Army members are recruiting children mostly between 15 and 17 years of age.
Many people, including large numbers of Syrian soldiers and security personnel, have been killed since the crisis erupted in Syria in March 2011.
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